| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PG 9.0 release timetable |
| Date: | 2010-05-31 15:34:00 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTilFYgRdcnIXM8v_nQJAOTc5XvIbAC0pamLq-CKG@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Mon, 31 May 2010, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> > I find myself entirely unimpressed by proposals to make releases
>> > according to some rigid schedule that takes no account of whether
>> > packaging manpower is actually available.
>>
>> How many beta testers out there *rely* on a package to do their testing?
>> I'm not saying don't try and get packages in place, I'm just saying it
>> shouldn't be a requirement to stamp code BETA and create a tar ball ...
My guess would be "most of them".
Unlike alphas where most probably just work off a tree - or so it seems.
That's obviously going to be very platform dependent.
> Well, they can just grab nightly snapshots and test, right? I don't
> think a beta is fundamentally different from a nightly snapshot,
> source-code wise.
Source-code wise, no, it's not - except that it's a well defined point
in time, so it's easier to report bugs against, and to search for
known bugs against.
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Magnus Hagander
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