Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com]
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:50 PM
> To: Dann Corbit; Jan Wieck
> Cc: scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl;
> PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze
>
>
> Dann,
>
> > Astute members of the list have noticed that I have not
> volunteered to
> > perform the work. I may or may not produce some efforts towards
> > testing PostgreSQL. Whether I decide to help or not is irrelevant
> > towards the concept of what needs to be done.
>
> It is not irrelevant. This is an Open Source project, not
> some Dot-Com where
> you can float good ideas until you go bankrupt. If there's
> no possibility
> of us getting a major 3rd-party certified battery of QA tests
> donated, why
> bother putting it on the TODO list?
>
> Would it be nice if we had more tests? Yes. In fact, one of
> the items on my
> personal todo list is to devise a more versatile performance
> test than
> pgbench for testing postgresql parameters, builds, and
> installations. But
> it's not getting done by me carping at people on the Hackers
> list. It'll get
> done when I spend a long weekend writing Perl.
>
> Put up or shut up time, Dann.

It's shut up, then. I'm not willing to commit to this effort.