From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Avoiding upgrade backlash
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:38:32 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200711172038.lAHKcW615258@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473F5057.8010905@commandprompt.com>
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > If it is that big an issue why are we not getting more problem reports
> > from beta testers?
>
> Most people don't beta test further most people don't test (you know this).
>
> My customers aren't going to be an issue obviously. What I am worried
> about is the backlash from those who like to do this:
>
> Ohhhh 8.3 is out.
> Upgrade
> WTH just happen!
>
> And there are far more of those than I wish to admit (consider the
> existence of gentoo ;)).
I understand but unless we have feedback from actual users we can't know
which issues need X notice and which need 10X notice. We can guess and
right now I think we have enough detail. If we find we haven't covered
it enough we can always revisit this, even after the final release.
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
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