Re: Ready for beta2?

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> We have had very few beta1 issues. I am thinking we should release
>>> beta2 next week and perhaps accelerate beta and consider a final release
>>> in November rather than December. Because of the length of our feature
>>> freeze it is possible we are not going to have as many beta bugs.
>>>
>> Unfortunately, I think that's because people haven't been testing. At
>> my keynote at the PostgreSQL Fall Conference yesterday, I asked the
>> audience of 63 people how many had built 8.3 beta and tried to run
>> something on it ... 3. And these are our enthusiasts.
>>
>> For me, I ran into a CC compile issues on Solaris (diagnosing now) and
>> haven't got much further on testing it there, although Jignesh is
>> already into performance testing. Worked fine for demo purposes on
>> OSX.4, though, and I was able to import some old databases (Staffos,
>> TPCE) without unexpected issues.
>>
>> Of course I would like to do a short beta, but I think we need to harass
>> people to test more.
>
> Nothing motivates people to test more than moving toward RC1. ;-)
>

Getting Beta2 out is vital to actually getting people to test there are
known issues and changes with Beta1 that have made it pretty much a
useless Beta.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake