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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
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Cc: pgsql-core <pgsql-core@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [CORE] Restore-reliability mode
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 10:23:56 -0400
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Agreed. Cleanup can occur while we release code for public testing.

> The code is available for public testing right now.

Only to people who have the time and ability to pull the code from git
and build from source.  I don't know exactly what fraction of interested
testers that excludes, but I bet it's significant.  The point of producing
packages would be to remove that barrier to testing.

> Stamping it a
> beta implies that we think it's something fairly stable that we'd be
> pretty happy to release if things go well, which is a higher bar to
> clear.

So let's call it an alpha, or some other way of setting expectations
appropriately.  But I think it's silly to maintain that the code is not in
a state where end-user testing is useful.  They just have to understand
that they can't trust it with production data.

> I can't help noticing for all the drumbeat of "let's release 9.5 beta
> now", activity to clean up the items on this list seems quite
> sluggish:
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_9.5_Open_Items

While we need to work on those items, I do not agree that getting that
list to empty has to happen before we release a test version.  I think
serializing effort in that way is simply bad project management.  And
it's not how we've operated in the past either: getting the open items
list to empty has always been understood as a prerequisite to RC versions,
not to betas.

To get to specifics instead of generalities: exactly which of the current
open items do you think is so bad that it precludes user testing?  I do
not see a beta-blocker in the lot.

			regards, tom lane


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