Re: 8.4 release planning

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>
Subject: Re: 8.4 release planning
Date: 2009-01-27 14:35:09
Message-ID: 497F1B9D.4050201@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 00:42:32 Ron Mayer wrote:
>> If it were just as easy for us to pull from a
>> "all 'pending-patches' for-commit-fest-nov that pass regression tests"
>> branch, I'd happily pull from that instead.
>
> Considering that most patches don't come with regression tests, this would
> accomplish very little. And even those patches that did come with regression
> tests (e.g., updatable views) need a design analysis much more than running
> an automated test suite. Ultimately, it does come down to human work.

So long as the patch passes the pre-existing regression tests, it's likely
to be stable enough to run on some of our development instances.

I certainly don't suggest that this is a substitute for reviews. Just that
more testing of patches might happen incidentally (by people who currently
test their own software against CVS head) if all the pending patches
for a commit fest were as easy to pull as CVS head.

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