Re: [MASSMAIL]Re: First draft of Beta announcement

From: "Gilberto Castillo" <gilberto(dot)castillo(at)etecsa(dot)cu>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)berkus(dot)org>, "Andres Freund" <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "Petr Jelinek" <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Justin Clift" <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [MASSMAIL]Re: First draft of Beta announcement
Date: 2017-05-12 17:13:38
Message-ID: 49978.192.168.207.54.1494609218.squirrel@webmail.etecsa.cu
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> On 05/12/2017 09:40 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Josh, Justin, Andres, Gunnar, Peter:
>
>> I disagree. As a rule, we don't break backwards compatibility so pg 10
>> is going to be a shock to a lot of people. We really haven't seen this
>> quantity of breakage since 8.3, which was released nine years ago, long
>> before the majority of our current users were using Postgres. Given
>> that -- because of partiitoning and logical replication -- many users
>> will want to upgrade to 10 the month it comes out, I think we need to
>> point out *in detail* why they will want to do extra testing. At a
>> minimum, this includes the change in version numbering, the renaming of
>> xlog to wal, and dropping support for FEBE 1.0.
>
> In thinking about this, succinct may be much better:
>
> Version 10 *breaks compatibility* with previous versions. See the full
> details in the release notes at:
>
> Or
>
> V10 Breaks all the things. See the full details...
>
> I know the latter is out of our norm but everybody knows the break all
> the things meme (especially people that would be willing to beta test).
> Let's have "a little" fun but make it very clear.
>
> (I would not recommend that wording for final release)
>

+++1

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Saludos,
Gilberto Castillo
ETECSA, La Habana, Cuba

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