Re: 8.5 release timetable, again

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:46:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> This seems a good idea.  Possibly pushing the betas more
> >> aggresively to current users would make them tested not only by
> >> PG hackers ...
> 
> > Isn't this the purpose of the new alpha releases, at lease to some
> > extent.
> 
> The alpha releases as currently constituted are practically the
> exact opposite of what's being suggested here :-(.  We are pushing
> them out without very much advertisement, and certainly without any
> formal program to encourage significant testing.  That's more or
> less forced by the decision that alpha releases should be
> low-overhead, but I think we're unlikely to get wide-ranging test
> coverage that way.

How would you recommend that this change?

Cheers,
David.
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