On ons, 2009-08-26 at 14:26 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, exactly. I can't imagine end users would know what to do during
beta. Even assuming that you have release notes at the beginning of
beta, you can't expect people to go through every item and do a formal
test for it. Surely it's been tested before, else it would not be in
the release, right?