Re: [CORE] Restore-reliability mode

From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-core <pgsql-core(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [CORE] Restore-reliability mode
Date: 2015-06-06 10:27:30
Message-ID: 1433586450.6239.20.camel@gunduz.org
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Hi,

On Sat, 2015-06-06 at 12:15 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, we (Simon and me) actually discussed something
> else along this line a while ago that might be worth considering. That
> is, maybe we should consider time-based alpha releases. That is, we
> can just decide "we wrap an alpha every other Monday until we think we
> are good to go with beta". The reason for that is to get much quicker
> iteration on bugfixes, which would encourage people to use and test
> these versions. Report a bug and if it was easy enough to fix, you
> have a wrapped release with the fix in 2 weeks top.

+1.

> Package availability would depend on platform. For those platforms
> where package building is more or less entirely automatic already,
> this could probably also be easily automated.

When we used to release more alphas years ago, I was releasing Alpha
RPMs for many platforms. I'll do it again if we keep doing it.

Regards,

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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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