On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Mon, 31 May 2010, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> > I find myself entirely unimpressed by proposals to make releases
>> > according to some rigid schedule that takes no account of whether
>> > packaging manpower is actually available.
>>
>> How many beta testers out there *rely* on a package to do their testing?
>> I'm not saying don't try and get packages in place, I'm just saying it
>> shouldn't be a requirement to stamp code BETA and create a tar ball ...
My guess would be "most of them".
Unlike alphas where most probably just work off a tree - or so it seems.
That's obviously going to be very platform dependent.
> Well, they can just grab nightly snapshots and test, right? I don't
> think a beta is fundamentally different from a nightly snapshot,
> source-code wise.
Source-code wise, no, it's not - except that it's a well defined point
in time, so it's easier to report bugs against, and to search for
known bugs against.
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