Re: Beta 3

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au> wrote:
>> Heya all
>>
>> It seems like it's a bit trickier to find beta downloads than might be
>> ideal.
>>
>> The beta info page simply reads:
>>
>> " PostgreSQL 9.2 beta 3 was released on August 6, 2012."
>>
>> with no information about how to obtain a build or the sources, not even a
>> link to the downloads page, despite being linked to with the text:
>>
>> "More information on how to test and report issues:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta"
>>
>> in the announcement email.
>>
>> It should at least link to:
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/download/snapshots/
>>
>> and the -bugs form or guide to reporting problems page.
>>
>> The beta announcement email links to the main downloads page from which the
>> snapshots/beta downloads page can be reached, but the main beta page is a
>> dead-end. Not ideal for encouraging feedback and testing.
>
> Yeah, this is pretty bad.

Agreed. Anybody up for writing the text though? There was some text
earlier (see http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgweb.git;a=commitdiff;h=bd02e36141bb99e9ee4e0b80fd69464e0e6d91b7#patch18
or the corresponding one in the old pgweb repo). That can probably be
adapted to be put in the new one - seems it was genereally just
removed because there was no beta available, and the intentino wasn't
that the page should remain useless once a beta was out..

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