| From: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> |
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| To: | David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-core <pgsql-core(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release |
| Date: | 2015-05-31 15:49:02 |
| Message-ID: | 20150531154902.GA4798@tornado.leadboat.com |
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On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 09:51:04PM -0400, David Steele wrote:
> On 5/30/15 8:38 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > On 05/30/2015 03:48 PM, David Steele wrote:
> >> I would argue Heikki's WAL stuff is a perfect case for releasing a
> >> public alpha/beta soon. I'd love to test PgBackRest with an "official"
> >> 9.5dev build. The PgBackRest test suite has lots of tests that run on
> >> versions 8.3+ and might well shake out any bugs that are lying around.
> >
> > You are right. Clone git, run it nightly automated and please, please
> > report anything you find. There is no reason for a tagged release for
> > that. Consider it a custom, purpose built, build-test farm.
>
> Sure - I can write code to do that. But then why release a beta at all?
It's largely for the benefit of folks planning manual, or otherwise high-cost,
testing. If you budget for just one big test per year, make it a test of
beta1. For inexpensive testing, you may as well ignore beta and test git
master daily or weekly.
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