Re: Impending freeze

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> >
> > We are definitely more organized for this beta because we are picking
> > the hour for beta start.  ;-)
> >
> > The issue is that we can't just close beta and roll out a beta1 tarball.
> > There will be patch questions, doc questions, and general build
> > questions that could take days to resolve before we are 100% ready for
> > beta1.
> >
> > Now, if you just want to roll together what we have and send out that,
> > that is fine, but there are going to be significant cleanups in beta2.
> 
> This is what I'm figuring ... if we roll and send out a beta1 right off,
> more ppl will look at it and report bugs then if we just say 'hey, its
> frozen, check it out' ... as I've said before, to me, beta is "we're
> getting ready to release, let us know what is wrong so that we can fix it"
> ... its at the RC level that we're saying we believe we have all the
> issues worked out ...

Yes, I am just concerned we may actually adjust functionality after
beta1 if we haven't tied everything down, and that may be a problem.

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