Re: Publishing 14 source snapshots?

On Thu, 2021-09-16 at 10:50 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 9/16/21 9:41 AM, Jacob Champion wrote:
> > On Thu, 2021-09-16 at 09:12 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > > 14 is in Beta:
> > 
> > Yep, we've been using those artifacts for now as a workaround. In our
> > case, it'd be nice to have daily snapshots for the 14 stable branch
> 
> I knew there was an explanation for this, see here:
> 
>
https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fdownload%2Fsnapshots%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cpchampion%40vmware.com%7C6b54f08db86b436a555b08d9793a7ed5%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C1%7C637674114423690457%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=I4oJOoV796iFyeFPmPSOwT%2BSvzAptf1B1CQe3usIjEI%3D&reserved=0
> 
> "Beta and Release Candidate packages are built prior to the release of 
> new major versions of PostgreSQL. They are not built continually."

Right -- I'd assumed that was because pg_upgrade has to support betas
and RCs, so it's useful to have defined points in time for official
support. In our case, we don't want the "official" builds; we just want
to track the 14 branch, similar to the way we can track the dev (15)
snapshot folder.

> There are also "branch tip" snapshots 
> built from all supported stable branches, which contains all bugfixes 
> that are scheduled for the next release. "

This is the sentence that seemed to cover it for me -- I thought 14
would be considered one of the stable branches for which snapshots
would be useful, even during beta.

> You could go here:
> 
>
https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpostgres%2Fpostgres&data=04%7C01%7Cpchampion%40vmware.com%7C6b54f08db86b436a555b08d9793a7ed5%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C1%7C637674114423690457%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=1sUIhEDvtRsmD8EzqtI5zd4rOmc7rBfNZUVr80GfB1o%3D&reserved=0
> 
> and grab the REL_14_STABLE branch.

Absolutely -- this isn't a hard blocker for us; it's just a special
case in our CI that I'd rather didn't exist... Maybe it'd be worthwhile
to ask on -hackers for an update to the snapshot policy?

Thanks,
--Jacob