Re: 8.5 release timetable, again

Greg Stark wrote:

> They basically don't do any integration testing and leave that up to
> the distributions now. Instead they have an "rc" release *every week*
> like clockwork and every 2-3 months the last one becomes a new version
> regardless of whether there's any notable new feature.

They have a two week "merge period" during which all patches of any
importance are merged.  The RCs are released after that, and they are
supposed to include only bugfixes to the merged patches.  Some things
are still merged after the merge window is closed, but they are very
few.  They release as many RCs as are necessary to close the majority of
bugs/regressions.

So yeah, they have some of the "time-based" nature, but they also use
the "when it's ready" philosophy a lot.

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