Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Release cycle length

2003-11-18 Thread Josh Berkus
Guys, I agree with Neil ... it's not the length of the development part of the cycle, it's the length of the beta testing. I do think an online bug tracker (bugzilla or whatever) would help. I also think that having a person in charge of testing would help as well ... no biggie, just

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Release cycle length

2003-11-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:42:31AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: (Oddly enough, my problem in doing more testing myself is external to PostgreSQL; most of our apps are PHP apps and you can't compile PHP against two different versions of PostgreSQL on the same server. Maybe with User Mode

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Release cycle length

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Josh Berkus wrote: Guys, I agree with Neil ... it's not the length of the development part of the cycle, it's the length of the beta testing. I do think an online bug tracker (bugzilla or whatever) would help. I also think that having a person in charge of testing would help as well ... no

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Release cycle length

2003-11-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: Guys, I agree with Neil ... it's not the length of the development part of the cycle, it's the length of the beta testing. I do think an online bug tracker (bugzilla or whatever) would help. I also think that having a

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Release cycle length

2003-11-18 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
HOWEVER, a release cycle of *less than 6 months* would kill the advocacy vols if we wanted the same level of publicity. I do support the idea of dev releases. For example, if there was a dev release of PG+ARC as soon as Jan is done with it, I have one client would would be willing to test it

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Release cycle length

2003-11-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: HOWEVER, a release cycle of *less than 6 months* would kill the advocacy vols if we wanted the same level of publicity. I do support the idea of dev releases. For example, if there was a dev release of PG+ARC as soon as Jan is done