Re: 8.5 release timetable, again

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: 8.5 release timetable, again
Date: 2009-08-27 22:09:28
Message-ID: 20090827220928.GQ11213@alvh.no-ip.org
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Kevin Grittner escribió:
> 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. I
> seem to remember Bruce saying that there were bugs being fixed, and
> that it didn't make sense to release a beta with known bugs of that
> magnitude, but I'm not clear on what was up with that.

That's nonsense IMHO. We should have just released a version
documenting the known bugs, and asking for people to test the rest of
the system.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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