| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 8.5 release timetable, again |
| Date: | 2009-08-26 19:44:46 |
| Message-ID: | 20090826194445.GA1722@fetter.org |
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:46:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> writes:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> This seems a good idea. Possibly pushing the betas more
> >> aggresively to current users would make them tested not only by
> >> PG hackers ...
>
> > Isn't this the purpose of the new alpha releases, at lease to some
> > extent.
>
> The alpha releases as currently constituted are practically the
> exact opposite of what's being suggested here :-(. We are pushing
> them out without very much advertisement, and certainly without any
> formal program to encourage significant testing. That's more or
> less forced by the decision that alpha releases should be
> low-overhead, but I think we're unlikely to get wide-ranging test
> coverage that way.
How would you recommend that this change?
Cheers,
David.
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