Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> To what do you attribute the extended time needed to handle the
>> final CF? How can that be made better?
>
> We had many patches that had been through previous commit-fests with
> minor adjustments and we had to finalize them before we could close
> the final commit-fest. To be clear I am talking about patches that
> were eventually applied in 8.4, not patches that were rejected for
> 8.4.
Thanks. That answers the first question.
I guess it suggests that the second question could be refined to:
What could have been done to finalize these patches in earlier
commit-fests or bump them to 8.5 before they dragged the process of
wrapping the release by half a year?
-Kevin