| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)it>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: 9.3 Beta 1 Coming Soon! |
| Date: | 2013-04-21 21:38:13 |
| Message-ID: | 51745C45.8090409@agliodbs.com |
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>> What I suggest this time is to avoid mentioning all the new features in the
>> beta announcement, reducing the impact of the 9.3.0 official release. We
>> faced this problem last year too, when we had to make the announcement and
>> ... everything had already been said in the beta1 release.
>
> I think this is dangerous as it reduces the amount of testing those new
> features get even further. We *need* the testing. And for that the
> testers need to know about the new features. Otherwise we can just skip
> beta.
I have to agree with Andres, here. Good PR is nice, but good testing is
more important.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
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