| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | 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 15:34:21 |
| Message-ID: | alpine.BSF.2.00.1005311232000.75550@hub.org |
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On Mon, 31 May 2010, Bruce Momjian 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 ...
>
> 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.
doesn't really give a good reference point for testing purposes ... if
everyone downloads BETA2 and tests, they are all testing the exact same
code ...
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