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Re: [CORE] Restore-reliability mode

Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>

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From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, pgsql-core <pgsql-core@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-06-06T10:27:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On Sat, 2015-06-06 at 12:15 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, we (Simon and me) actually discussed something
> else along this line a while ago that might be worth considering. That
> is, maybe we should consider time-based alpha releases. That is, we
> can just decide "we wrap an alpha every other Monday until we think we
> are good to go with beta". The reason for that is to get much quicker
> iteration on bugfixes, which would encourage people to use and test
> these versions. Report a bug and  if it was easy enough to fix, you
> have a wrapped release with the fix in 2 weeks top.

+1. 

> Package availability would depend on platform. For those platforms
> where package building is more or less entirely automatic already,
> this could probably also be easily automated.

When we used to release more alphas years ago, I was releasing Alpha
RPMs for many platforms. I'll do it again if we keep doing it.

Regards,

-- 
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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