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Re: damage control mode

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Date: 2010-01-12T00:54:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Treat wrote:
> > Now the other approach we could take is that we'll ship *something*
> > on 7 Mar, even if it's less stable than what we've traditionally
> > considered to be beta quality.  I don't think that really helps
> > much though; it just means we need more time in beta.
> >
> 
> There are three reasons I'd probably be comfortable with that; 1) the CF 
> process means we've likely had more eyes on the code going in than in past 
> releases.

The reality check is that was had commit-fests for 8.4 development and
8.4.0 had more easily-identified bugs than most of our previous .0
releases which didn't use commit-fests.

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