Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release

On 05/30/2015 06:51 PM, David Steele wrote:
> On 5/30/15 8:38 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>> On 05/30/2015 03:48 PM, David Steele wrote:
>>> On 5/30/15 2:10 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>> What, in this release, could break things badly? RLS? Grouping sets?
>>>> Heikki's WAL format changes? That last one sounds really scary to me;
>>>> it's painful if not impossible to fix the WAL format in a minor
>>>> release.
>>>
>>> I would argue Heikki's WAL stuff is a perfect case for releasing a
>>> public alpha/beta soon. I'd love to test PgBackRest with an "official"
>>> 9.5dev build. The PgBackRest test suite has lots of tests that run on
>>> versions 8.3+ and might well shake out any bugs that are lying around.
>>
>> You are right. Clone git, run it nightly automated and please, please
>> report anything you find. There is no reason for a tagged release for
>> that. Consider it a custom, purpose built, build-test farm.
>
> Sure - I can write code to do that. But then why release a beta at all?

1. Continuous testing (especially automated) is a great thing (see
Buildfarm)

2. The rules for patches change a bit when we move to Beta

3. We may be able to fix a problem now (or soon) that you might catch
before Beta.

Sincerely,

J

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