On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Yup. This is a huge problem and we need to deal with it somehow. At > the same time, I'm worried that our beta testing process is already > inadequate. We've found several rather embarrassing bugs in 8.4, for > instance, things that should have been found in beta IMO. Shortening > beta or encouraging people to start next-cycle development instead of > testing doesn't seem like a wise move. You can't just develop all > the time, you have to test & debug too ...
Sure, but an aimless mandate to do testing for 4 (or 8, or 12) months doesn't necessarily buy you much, either. I'm good at focused activity - but there was nothing focused about 8.4 beta that I could see. Maybe we need some kind of TestFest process. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers