Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1BKM-0007Ih-W8 for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2015 10:27:47 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1BKM-0003IF-Dc for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2015 10:27:46 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:1501:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1BKL-0003I2-Ex; Sat, 06 Jun 2015 10:27:45 +0000 Received: from ns3.gunduz.org ([107.170.88.27] helo=ns1.gunduz.org) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1BKD-0008Fm-JH; Sat, 06 Jun 2015 10:27:44 +0000 Received: from asus-laptop-03.gunduz.org (unknown [78.160.111.135]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ns1.gunduz.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AF61840759; Sat, 6 Jun 2015 10:27:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1433586450.6239.20.camel@gunduz.org> Subject: Re: [CORE] Restore-reliability mode From: Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= To: Magnus Hagander Cc: Simon Riggs , Alvaro Herrera , Robert Haas , Josh Berkus , Noah Misch , Bruce Momjian , Andres Freund , Tom Lane , Stephen Frost , "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" , pgsql-core Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:27:30 +0300 In-Reply-To: References: <20150530154559.GA25053@momjian.us> <20150530204727.GJ13944@alap3.anarazel.de> <20150531024845.GB13697@momjian.us> <20150603135049.GA74753@tornado.leadboat.com> <556F3798.6010707@agliodbs.com> <20150605162012.GQ133018@postgresql.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11 (3.12.11-1.fc21) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-hackers Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org Hi, On Sat, 2015-06-06 at 12:15 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > If I'm not mistaken, we (Simon and me) actually discussed something > else along this line a while ago that might be worth considering. That > is, maybe we should consider time-based alpha releases. That is, we > can just decide "we wrap an alpha every other Monday until we think we > are good to go with beta". The reason for that is to get much quicker > iteration on bugfixes, which would encourage people to use and test > these versions. Report a bug and if it was easy enough to fix, you > have a wrapped release with the fix in 2 weeks top. +1. > Package availability would depend on platform. For those platforms > where package building is more or less entirely automatic already, > this could probably also be easily automated. When we used to release more alphas years ago, I was releasing Alpha RPMs for many platforms. I'll do it again if we keep doing it. Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers