Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel J. Andrews [mailto:nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk]
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:30 PM
> To: Dann Corbit
> Cc: scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl;
> PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze
[snip]
> So you've never worked on a project where the data is of high
> value, since in those circumstances the customer is always
> going to apply their own acceptance testing anyway. If you
> think that doesn't happen you try sitting through 2 solid
> days of Y2k testing on _one_ system and tell me customers
> never do their own testing.

Here's an old copy of my resume. You be the judge:
ftp://cap.connx.com/C.A.P.%20Biographies/DannCorbit.htm#_Toc441048186

The burden of reliablity testing must not rest solely on the end user.
That constitutes negligence on the part of the software vendor
(IMO-YMMV).

> > Therefore, I am going to stop harping on it.
>
> But there is no need to, as has been mentioned before, if the
> testing is not upto your level of testing submit something
> that makes it so. Having said that I do believe you mentioned
> that you didn't have the time to create something but you
> would be happy to test it, i.e. test the test.

I may or may not have time to work on a software test system for
PostgreSQL. I do a lot of PostgreSQL work here, and at some point I
think I will have valuable contributions to the project.