Re: Remaining 9.5 open items

On 4 December 2015 at 15:50, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> Do we think they ever launched a Saturn V that didn't have some marginal
> flashing lights somewhere?
>

​Almost certainly. They had triple-redundant systems that were certified
for correctness. You don't knowingly send rockets into space with dubious
control systems.

I accept there are open items. I'd like a way to indicate to people they
> can start using it with a safety, apart from the listed caveats.
>

Just to add my .2c worth...

​T​
hat's what betas are for.

There's an implied open-source contract​

​that anyone who wants to use a feature in the next version will invest a
little of their time ​making sure that the feature works for them in the
beta before it gets released.

The developer side of that contract is that you fix the bugs people found
in the beta before release, because otherwise next time they won't bother.

And if you start pushing out full releases that you *know *introduce bugs
that weren't in the previous release, "with caveats" or not, you end up in
a situation where people won't upgrade until the second or third point
release.

Geoff