Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

I think it was a useful discussion.  I find it interesting to compare
our clearly ad-hock testing methods to traditional commercial testing
strategies.  I think our results are very good, but it does look awful
"ad-hock" and it is easy to see how someone would question its
effectiveness.

Of course, the whole open source development model seems ad-hock too,
and on the surface seems inferior to a commercial software development
model, but there again, the proof is in the result.

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Dann Corbit wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@postgresql.org] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:10 PM
> > To: Dann Corbit
> > Cc: The Hermit Hacker; Jan Wieck; scott.marlowe; Bruce 
> > Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; PostgreSQL-development
> > Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:
> > 
> > > I did something about it.  I raised the issue.
> > > Is it really so that whoever it is that raises a question 
> > is also the 
> > > one who must fix the issue raised? A strange model indeed.
> > 
> > Its worked for us ...
> > 
> > Wait, I know what should make you happy ... it won't get 
> > anytihng done, but ...
> > 
> > Bruce, can you add "* Improve Testing" to the TODO list
> 
> It is surely a titanic mistake to bring up any issue on this list if you
> do not plan to fix it yourself.
>  
> > > > Someone has to spearhead it
> > > > ... you seem to be passionate about seeing it happen, but 
> > don't care 
> > > > enough to do anything about it ...
> > >
> > > Don't care and won't do are not the same thing.
> > 
> > Well, actually, they are ... if someone doesn't care, they 
> > aren't going to do, are they?
> 
> You have had the time to do everything you ever cared about?
> 
> It is really true that I have made a titanic waste of time in an effort
> to get someone else to do something about it or at least get them
> interested in it.  I won't waste my time in that way again.  I deeply
> rue the time I have wasted already.
> 
> 

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