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* User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice @ 2005-10-10 06:24 Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Michael Fuhr @ 2005-10-10 06:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pgsql-www Regarding the user survey "Where did you get your current production copy of PostgreSQL from?" I'd like to suggest adding CVS as a choice. -- Michael Fuhr ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice @ 2005-10-10 14:24 Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> parent: Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Greg Sabino Mullane @ 2005-10-10 14:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pgsql-www -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Regarding the user survey "Where did you get your current production > copy of PostgreSQL from?" I'd like to suggest adding CVS as a choice. Yikes! Perhaps you overlooked the all-important "production" word of the question? :) Unless you are using cvs with specifically tagged releases. In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out as an answer, IMO. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane [email protected] PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200510101022 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFDSnmXvJuQZxSWSsgRAgMuAKCcMu1wT1z13g78TogA+SODMXd5tACcCrm/ ZwA1oX4dut1xmChCH+qJ+3g= =O0D7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice @ 2005-10-10 14:38 Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> parent: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Michael Fuhr @ 2005-10-10 14:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:24:35PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > Regarding the user survey "Where did you get your current production > > copy of PostgreSQL from?" I'd like to suggest adding CVS as a choice. > > Yikes! Perhaps you overlooked the all-important "production" word of > the question? :) Unless you are using cvs with specifically tagged releases. No, I didn't overlook the word "production," although I anticipated that somebody might think so. CVS doesn't necessarily imply HEAD: I was indeed thinking of people who track tagged releases. > In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out > as an answer, IMO. Is CVS usage really that low? I don't know, not having seen any activity logs. -- Michael Fuhr ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice @ 2005-10-10 15:02 Tom Lane <[email protected]> parent: Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> 1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Tom Lane @ 2005-10-10 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Michael Fuhr <[email protected]>; +Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>; pgsql-www Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:24:35PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: >> In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out >> as an answer, IMO. > Is CVS usage really that low? I don't know, not having seen any > activity logs. ... and we'll never find out, if we take surveys that exclude the possibility. I concur with Michael that pulling the head of a release branch might be a perfectly sane way to build a production installation. What if you need a bug fix that's in CVS but not yet appeared in any dot-release? regards, tom lane ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice @ 2005-10-10 15:14 Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> parent: Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Greg Sabino Mullane @ 2005-10-10 15:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pgsql-www -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out >> as an answer, IMO. > Is CVS usage really that low? I don't know, not having seen any > activity logs. Don't know. I'm just guessing based on the approximate number of posters to hackers and patches. I guess it can't hurt to add it, but I still think it will be an outlier. Personally, I prefer to use the tarballs so that I can help spot any bugs that may have been introduced in the packaging process. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane [email protected] PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200510101112 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFDSoVPvJuQZxSWSsgRAgV4AJ9x1Uhwx7STMpiDFXJ0Ml5VtuKX9ACfXkq6 9m7YKnmeFIK4rHTP2czLdOg= =/pWb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice @ 2005-10-10 15:49 Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> parent: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Michael Fuhr @ 2005-10-10 15:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:14:35PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > >> In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out > >> as an answer, IMO. > > > Is CVS usage really that low? I don't know, not having seen any > > activity logs. > > Don't know. I'm just guessing based on the approximate number of posters > to hackers and patches. I guess it can't hurt to add it, but I still > think it will be an outlier. Personally, I prefer to use the tarballs > so that I can help spot any bugs that may have been introduced in the > packaging process. So that's one data point. Shouldn't conclusions about the population in general be based on survey results instead of on a priori assumptions? Otherwise what's the point of the survey? -- Michael Fuhr ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice @ 2005-10-11 00:31 Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]> parent: Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Jim C. Nasby @ 2005-10-11 00:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Michael Fuhr <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www BTW, shouldn't we at least have a link to the survey on the front page, if not the survey itself? On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:24:56AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: > Regarding the user survey "Where did you get your current production > copy of PostgreSQL from?" I'd like to suggest adding CVS as a choice. > > -- > Michael Fuhr > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend > -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [email protected] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice @ 2005-10-11 09:51 Robert Treat <[email protected]> parent: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Robert Treat @ 2005-10-11 09:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pgsql-www; +Cc: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>; Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> On Monday 10 October 2005 20:31, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > BTW, shouldn't we at least have a link to the survey on the front page, > if not the survey itself? > When we did the site redesign last year, it got nixed from the front page. If you have a perticular spot you'd like to put the link lmk and we can try it. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 8+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2005-10-11 09:51 UTC | newest] Thread overview: 8+ messages (download: mbox mbox.gz follow: Atom feed) -- links below jump to the message on this page -- 2005-10-10 06:24 User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> 2005-10-10 14:24 ` Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> 2005-10-10 14:38 ` Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> 2005-10-10 15:02 ` Tom Lane <[email protected]> 2005-10-10 15:14 ` Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> 2005-10-10 15:49 ` Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> 2005-10-11 00:31 ` Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]> 2005-10-11 09:51 ` Robert Treat <[email protected]>
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