| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)2ndquadrant(dot)it>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, 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: | 2013-04-20 11:00:29 |
| Message-ID: | CA+U5nMKsMMQrmums76g-W=De=R9zbQ5Hov7_D2MinEY7_fybNw@mail.gmail.com |
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On 20 April 2013 11:10, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2013-04-20 08:32:58 +0200, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Il 19/04/13 18:41, Josh Berkus ha scritto:
>> >You know, I'm not really seeing a "theme" here. 9.3 seems like more of
>> >a "cleanup" version ...
>> >
>> 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.
ISTM that if we wrote the list of Good Features *after* we wrote the
release notes we'd stand a better chance of doing it well.
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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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