Re: Ready for beta2?

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > We have had very few beta1 issues. I am thinking we should release
> > beta2 next week and perhaps accelerate beta and consider a final release
> > in November rather than December. Because of the length of our feature
> > freeze it is possible we are not going to have as many beta bugs.
> >
>
> Unfortunately, I think that's because people haven't been testing. At
> my keynote at the PostgreSQL Fall Conference yesterday, I asked the
> audience of 63 people how many had built 8.3 beta and tried to run
> something on it ... 3. And these are our enthusiasts.
>
> For me, I ran into a CC compile issues on Solaris (diagnosing now) and
> haven't got much further on testing it there, although Jignesh is
> already into performance testing. Worked fine for demo purposes on
> OSX.4, though, and I was able to import some old databases (Staffos,
> TPCE) without unexpected issues.
>
> Of course I would like to do a short beta, but I think we need to harass
> people to test more.

Nothing motivates people to test more than moving toward RC1. ;-)

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