On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/24/25 21:50, David Rowley wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 at 17:36, Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am not following, from your previous post: > >> > >> "Beta versions are meant for test instances. It'd be > >> good if people encouraged their use more often rather than pushing > >> people to defer til GA" > >> > >> That seems to be the opposite of what you say above. > > > > I think you think that because you misunderstood what I said in [1]. > > I'll rephrase it for you: > > > > Because people promote the .0 as not yet production-ready, it means > > that fewer people bother testing with beta and RC versions. Lack of > > beta testing is what causes .0 to contain more bugs than it otherwise > > might, so my suggestion is that we should be encouraging people to run > > beta and RC in their test environments to try to increase the > > stability of .0 versions. > > Alright that I understand, though not necessarily agree with. I would > say lack of testing has more to do with time/money management. > Organizations don't want to spend either until: 1) They see the dust > settle on what is going to end up in the release. 2) Whether there is > anything interesting enough to invest both in moving to a new release. > Maybe there is a compelling argument that can be made to get those > organizations off the fence. I just don't what it is as you would have > to convince them to spend time and money rather then just wait and let > the community as a whole do the work.\ > Contractual requirements to not run EOL software are a strong motivator to migrate to newer versions of OS and RDBMS. -- Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce. Don't boil me, I'm still alive. <Redacted> lobster!
