On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj> wrote:
> On 8 June 2015 at 16:01, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>
>> wrote:
>> > Wow! I never knew there were all these people out there who would be
>> > rushing
>> > to help test if only the PG developers released alpha versions. It's
>> > funny
>> > how they never used to do it when those alphas were done.
>>
>> That's probably overplaying your hand a little bit (and it sounds a
>> bit catty, too).
>
>
> I agree. The responses I had written yesterday but didn't send were much
> worse.
>
> Mainly because I think it's quite an attitude to take that open-source
> developers should put extra time into building RPMs of development versions
> rather than testers waiting 5 minutes while their machines compile.
> Ohmygosh, you have to rpm install a bunch of -devel stuff? What a massive
> hardship.
It's not about the 5 minutes of compile time, it's about the signalling.
Just *when* is git ready for testing? You don't know from the outside.
I do lurk here a lot and still am unsure quite often.
Even simply releasing an alpha *tarball* would be useful enough. What
is needed is the signal to test, rather than a fully-built package.