Re: 8.4 release planning

> I think that's baked in the cards no matter what. IMO, the issue is
> that code to review is building up faster than it is getting reviewed,
> so maybe a festless release is nesessary to flush out the difference
> (along with the other held over patches from 8.4).

How is that going to help? People will still write new code in the
meanwhile and some of it may be better or more important than the
stuff that doesn't get committed to 8.4. Artificially saying that
nothing will be allowed for 8.5 that wasn't planned for 8.4 doesn't
seem to me to solve anything.

I think we've actually done a very fine job reviewing code for 8.4.
Take a look at how many patches were reviewed and committed. The
problem is that we didn't review the big ones. But at least a part of
that is due to some oversights in assigning reviewers, rather than an
absolute lack of manpower.

> The other thing going on here is that HS is extremely important to the
> project. If it was up to me, 100% effort would be geared to getting
> it out as quickly as possible. I'm just looking for a way to get HS
> in the hands of people as quickly as possible that is fair to
> everybody. (I would actually prefer to hold 8.4 for it, but that's
> starting to sound unrealistic based on Tom's comments).

+1.

...Robert