On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 09:51:04PM -0400, David Steele wrote:
> On 5/30/15 8:38 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > On 05/30/2015 03:48 PM, David Steele wrote:
> >> I would argue Heikki's WAL stuff is a perfect case for releasing a
> >> public alpha/beta soon. I'd love to test PgBackRest with an "official"
> >> 9.5dev build. The PgBackRest test suite has lots of tests that run on
> >> versions 8.3+ and might well shake out any bugs that are lying around.
> >
> > You are right. Clone git, run it nightly automated and please, please
> > report anything you find. There is no reason for a tagged release for
> > that. Consider it a custom, purpose built, build-test farm.
>
> Sure - I can write code to do that. But then why release a beta at all?
It's largely for the benefit of folks planning manual, or otherwise high-cost,
testing. If you budget for just one big test per year, make it a test of
beta1. For inexpensive testing, you may as well ignore beta and test git
master daily or weekly.