Re: Ready for beta2?

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > We have had very few beta1 issues.  I am thinking we should release
> > beta2 next week and perhaps accelerate beta and consider a final release
> > in November rather than December.  Because of the length of our feature
> > freeze it is possible we are not going to have as many beta bugs.
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately, I think that's because people haven't been testing.  At 
> my keynote at the PostgreSQL Fall Conference yesterday, I asked the 
> audience of 63 people how many had built 8.3 beta and tried to run 
> something on it ... 3.  And these are our enthusiasts.
> 
> For me, I ran into a CC compile issues on Solaris (diagnosing now) and 
> haven't got much further on testing it there, although Jignesh is 
> already into performance testing.  Worked fine for demo purposes on 
> OSX.4, though, and I was able to import some old databases (Staffos, 
> TPCE) without unexpected issues.
> 
> Of course I would like to do a short beta, but I think we need to harass 
> people to test more.

Nothing motivates people to test more than moving toward RC1.  ;-)

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