Re: PostgreSQL 8.5 Open Items

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.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.

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

Thanks,

...Robert