Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 11:49:02 -0400
From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>,
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Subject: Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release
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On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 09:51:04PM -0400, David Steele wrote:
> On 5/30/15 8:38 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > On 05/30/2015 03:48 PM, David Steele wrote:
> >> I would argue Heikki's WAL stuff is a perfect case for releasing a
> >> public alpha/beta soon.  I'd love to test PgBackRest with an "official"
> >> 9.5dev build.  The PgBackRest test suite has lots of tests that run on
> >> versions 8.3+ and might well shake out any bugs that are lying around.
> > 
> > You are right. Clone git, run it nightly automated and please, please
> > report anything you find. There is no reason for a tagged release for
> > that. Consider it a custom, purpose built, build-test farm.
> 
> Sure - I can write code to do that.  But then why release a beta at all?

It's largely for the benefit of folks planning manual, or otherwise high-cost,
testing.  If you budget for just one big test per year, make it a test of
beta1.  For inexpensive testing, you may as well ignore beta and test git
master daily or weekly.


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