Re: 8.5 release timetable, again

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> > Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> The final CommitFest began November 11, 2008. It closed March 25,
> >> 2009 (+ 144 days). Beta1 was released April 15, 2009 (+ 21 days).
>
> > I'm not entirely clear on what was happening during the 21 days
> > between the end of the CommitFest and and the release of beta1.
>
> Release note drafting is one part of it, but mostly it's "loose end
> cleanup". Historically there have always been a pile of loose ends
> to be dealt with, and the CommitFest structure doesn't really do
> anything to avoid that. If you're interested, attached are all the
> commits between commitfest closure (which I announced immediately
> after committing the addition of contrib/btree_gin) and stamping
> beta1 (which was actually several days before the date Robert gives,
> because of the need for the packagers to do their thing).
>
> It appears to me that release notes weren't actually the bottleneck this
> time, though they have been in some prior cycles. Bruce committed a
> first draft immediately after the commitfest closed. Rather, it was
> arguing about things like \df behavior and cardinality() that took up
> the time.

Yep, the bottom line here is that patches get into CVS, but issues come
up related to the patch, and we keep looking for good fixes, but once
the final commit-fest is over, we _have_ to fix these issues.

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