Re: PG 9.0 release timetable
Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-05-31T15:34:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 31 May 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On Mon, 31 May 2010, Tom Lane wrote: >> >>> I find myself entirely unimpressed by proposals to make releases >>> according to some rigid schedule that takes no account of whether >>> packaging manpower is actually available. >> >> How many beta testers out there *rely* on a package to do their testing? >> I'm not saying don't try and get packages in place, I'm just saying it >> shouldn't be a requirement to stamp code BETA and create a tar ball ... > > Well, they can just grab nightly snapshots and test, right? I don't > think a beta is fundamentally different from a nightly snapshot, > source-code wise. doesn't really give a good reference point for testing purposes ... if everyone downloads BETA2 and tests, they are all testing the exact same code ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scrappy@hub.org http://www.hub.org Yahoo:yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ:7615664 MSN:scrappy@hub.org