The short answer is that at some point, we kept adding more and more tests on our own, which kept the blog from going out, and we finally decided to have a cuto

The short answer is that at some point, we kept adding more and more tests on our own, which kept the blog from going out, and we finally decided to have a cutoff date and let the community continue adding tests that they were interested in. I think adding a database test to Netty (as well as Go for that matter) would be a great addition.