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Re: wrapping up this CommitFest (was Re: knngist - 0.8)

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-03-01T19:52:08Z
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  1. Further refine patch for commenting operator implementation functions.

  2. Fix citext's upgrade-from-unpackaged script to set its collation correctly.

  3. Mark operator implementation functions as such in their comments.

  4. Add KNNGIST support to contrib/btree_gist.

  5. Fix plpython breakage detected on certain Fedora machines on buildfarm.

> As I understand it, it requires only the steps described here:
> 
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alpha_release_process
> 
> That all looks pretty straightforward, assuming you can log into
> developer.postgresql.org, which I can't.  I think I remember having an
> ftp account at some point, but it's not accepting connections on port
> 22, so there is doubtless some secret sauce I am missing here.

Ideally, we want to have some binaries/packages for the "final alpha".
Those broaden testing considerably.

We don't need them for all platforms, of course.  Really, the critical
ones for testing are Windows and OSX.  Linux/BSD/Solaris users are
pretty good at make/make install.

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