On 26/08/10 12:35, Darren Duncan wrote:
Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 26/08/10 05:38, Darren Duncan wrote:
Under the circumstances, I recommend releasing what we have now as
version 1.31 production within a week if there are no showstopper
problems discovered with 1.30_04 in the meantime.
It sounds like there are some quite major changes in this version of
SQLite, and thus also DBD::SQLite.
As with other major releases, I'm interested in testing the dev
release against our code which does tend to stress SQLite - however
this isn't something I can fit in in the time frame you're discussing
("within a week").
I am sure I'm not the only person in this situation.
Do you really need to release a so-called "stable" version so rapidly?
If what you have now is a release candidate, then would you mind
leaving it for a bit longer while people have a chance to shake it out?
DBD::SQLite is a major piece of many applications. Please be careful
what you nominate as "stable".
Thanks for your efforts in keeping it up to date and incorporating
upstream improvements - it's really appreciated.
Keep in mind, first of all, that most bugs of any consequence would be
in SQLite itself. SQLite itself has already had 3 patch releases since
3.7.0 which introduced the major changes, and 3.7.0 came out a full
month ago. Meanwhile 3.7.0.1 came which fixed a few bugs, then 3.7.1
with a greater number of changes, and then 3.7.2 which just fixed a bug.
So the codebase with the most serious likelihood of issues has already
had a month of shake-out, and moreover the SQLite itself has 100% test
coverage.
I understand that most of the issues would be in SQLite rather than
DBD::SQLite, but the Perl world hasn't tested that either yet.
I appreciate that both have unit test coverage, but just testing each
line of code doesn't guarantee you find odd edge cases in real-world
situations, nor odd interactions on particular operating systems, perl
or compiler versions.
Granted, DBD::SQLite has relatively little test coverage, and mostly
piggybacks on assuming SQLite itself or Perl itself is fine.
That all being said, how much time do you need to do your stress test?
Two weeks?
I and my colleagues should be able to get some testing done in the next
fortnight, sure.
I suspect many people will only catch the announcement via your posts on
other DB-related lists, so may take a while to get around to testing as
well.
Things will probably be OK in the end, but I do want to suggest that
there isn't a huge rush to get a "stable" version released to CPAN, so
maybe when there are "major" released like this, you could give people
weeks rather than days to test them in?
Thanks for your understanding,
Toby
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