Received: from magus.postgresql.org (magus.postgresql.org [87.238.57.229]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C0BEC7B27 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 15:24:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from cronos.madness.at ([2a02:16a8:dc41::10]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SnDCK-0008Eq-BX for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:24:10 +0000 Received: from mastermind.kaltenbrunner.cc ([2001:470:7a2d::22]) by cronos.madness.at with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SnDBx-0006zE-Du; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:23:48 +0200 Message-ID: <4FF72D24.1010206@kaltenbrunner.cc> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:23:32 +0200 From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111120 Icedove/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: Alvaro Herrera , Magnus Hagander , w^3 , Josh Berkus Subject: Re: 9.2beta web issues References: <28687.1341523141@sss.pgh.pa.us> <29222.1341524488@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1341525030-sup-6100@alvh.no-ip.org> <2405.1341528250@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <2405.1341528250@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201207/25 X-Sequence-Number: 20774 On 07/06/2012 12:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera writes: >> That list's traffic seems a bit on the low side -- surely we've had >> people testing more recently than September 2011. > > pgsql-testers is what we're talking about? > > 9/2011 would be when the last beta phase ended, and after that would > have been a period where zero traffic could be expected. Presumably > people have forgotten about the special list since then, accounting for > the lack of 9.2beta reports in that list. But even before that, the > traffic looks darn thin. yeah same goes for the (imho completely failed) experiment of using google docs(...) for collecting test results as recommended on https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HowToBetaTest (which is linked to from the main site on http://www.postgresql.org/developer/alpha/). I think we should completely drop all references to the google docs thingy and the -testers list there and redirect people simply to -bugs and/or hackers. Comments? Stefan