Re: 8.5 development schedule

On mån, 2009-08-17 at 10:22 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Peter Eisentraut<peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 08:04 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> Now that the first CommitFest is over and done with,
> >
> > I think you forgot the part where you tell everyone that it is in fact
> > done. I'm waiting on you before I get the alpha release rolling.
>
> Hmm, it's sort of out of my hands at this point. There are three
> patches left, all of which have been claimed by committers, one of
> whom is you. I don't have any magical powers to control the timing of
> committer activity.

Well, in the past the commit fest manager has usually written an email,
"The commit fest is now closed". Which, as you write, doesn't really
strictly mean anything, just as much as the commit first itself doesn't
really need to mean anything, but appeared to give everyone a sense of
direction and a fuzzy feeling.