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Subject: Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release
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On 2015-05-29 16:37:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, maybe we ought to call it an alpha not a beta, but I think we ought
> to put out some kind of release that we can encourage people to test.

I also do think it's important that we put out a beta (or alpha)
relatively soon. Both because we actually need input to find out what
works and what doesn't and also because it pushes us to tie up loose
ends.

A beta with open items isn't that bad a thing? There's many bigger
projects doing 4-8 betas releases before a major one; and most of them
have open items at the indvidual beta's release times.

I think we should define/document it so that there's no hard goal of
being compatible for beta releases and that the compatibility goal
starts with the first release candidate, and not the betas.


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