Re: PostgreSQL 8.5 Open Items

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 16:47, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure whether we ever posted this schedule anywhere official -
>> if so, I can't find it - but my understanding is that we have
>> consensus on the release schedule described here:
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg01251.php
>>
>> Under this schedule, the last CommitFest for the 8.5 release will
>> start 3 weeks from today.  As I think many of us remember, the last
>> CommitFest for 8.4 was extremely long and was followed by some amount
>> of further delay before we were able to go to beta.  I believe that we
>> have made a lot of progress in how we manage CommitFests this release
>> cycle, and I am fairly confident that we will be able to wrap up the
>> last CommitFest in a timely fashion.  I am personally committed to
>> doing whatever I can to make sure that happens and hereby volunteer to
>> manage the last CommitFest, unless someone else would like to take a
>> crack at it, in which case by all means feel free.
>>
>> The open items list is a source of somewhat more concern for me,
>> because while patches can be bounced if we run out of time, open items
>> don't just go away.  I've added two items I know about here:
>>
>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.5_Open_Items
>>
>> I would encourage anyone else who is aware of open items to begin
>> adding them to this list, adding sections as necessary.  Last time
>> around, we ended up assembling our initial list from a dump of one of
>> Bruce's mail folders.  I'm not sure whether that's the best way to go
>> about it, but if we're going to do it that way, we should do it SOON,
>> so that we start to get an idea what the must-fix issues are before we
>> get down to the wire.  We have a little time on any issues that are
>> must-fix for the final release, but the scheduled gap between alpha4
>> and beta1 is quite short, so anything that is must-fix for beta is
>> something we need to start thinking about soon.  We can't do that,
>> though, until we first have a list of items and a decision about which
>> ones fall into that category.
>
> I was slightly surprised not to get any responses to this email.
> Alvaro added one or two things to the page mentioned above, and I
> added the bugs I posted about yesterday, but that's it.  Are there
> really no other open issues for 8.5?  That would be great, but I am
> concerned that there may be other things that people just haven't
> gotten around to mentioning yet.

Well, I have a couple of things in the win64 stuff still to go, but
that patch is active on a CF page still, so I haven't added it to the
list yet...

> Also, should I assume that the silence in response to this email
> indicates that everyone likes the plan where I manage the next
> CommitFest?

Certainly +n from me :-)

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