Re: PG 9.0 release timetable

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG 9.0 release timetable
Date: 2010-05-31 15:30:24
Message-ID: 201005311530.o4VFUO102558@momjian.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > I find myself entirely unimpressed by proposals to make releases
> > according to some rigid schedule that takes no account of whether
> > packaging manpower is actually available.
>
> How many beta testers out there *rely* on a package to do their testing?
> I'm not saying don't try and get packages in place, I'm just saying it
> shouldn't be a requirement to stamp code BETA and create a tar ball ...

Well, they can just grab nightly snapshots and test, right? I don't
think a beta is fundamentally different from a nightly snapshot,
source-code wise.

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