Re: [HACKERS] Release cycle length

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Release cycle length
Date: 2003-11-19 01:56:55
Message-ID: 3FBACDE7.4090109@familyhealth.com.au
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> HOWEVER, a release cycle of *less than 6 months* would kill the advocacy vols
> if we wanted the same level of publicity.
>
> I do support the idea of "dev" releases. For example, if there was a "dev"
> release of PG+ARC as soon as Jan is done with it, I have one client would
> would be willing to test it against a simulated production load on pretty
> heavy-duty hardware.

Can't we have nightly builds always available? Why can't they just use
the CVS version?

> (Oddly enough, my problem in doing more testing myself is external to
> PostgreSQL; most of our apps are PHP apps and you can't compile PHP against
> two different versions of PostgreSQL on the same server. Maybe with User
> Mode Linux I'll be able to do more testing now.)

I'd be willing to give testing coordination a go, not sure where I'd
begin though.

Chris

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