Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> ... if you let
> both things go on at once, I guarantee you almost all of the community
> attention will be diverted toward new development during any period
> where both are happening at the same time.
Yes. This is the big problem that would have to be solved before we
could have commitfests occurring in parallel with beta. There simply
isn't a pool of (qualified) talent that can go off and do beta testing
and stabilization in parallel with new development. It's pretty much
the same people who do both tasks; so if we try to do that, one of two
things is going to happen: beta takes even longer, or release quality
goes down.
We already heard a lot of complaints that 8.4 should have gotten more
testing than it did. Proposing to continue development in parallel
with beta is a good way to ensure that that will get worse not better.
regards, tom lane