Re: 9.2beta web issues

On 6 July 2012 19:23, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:
> On 07/06/2012 12:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> yeah same goes for the (imho completely failed) experiment of using
> google docs(...) for collecting test results as recommended on
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HowToBetaTest (which is linked to from
> the main site on http://www.postgresql.org/developer/alpha/).
>
> I think we should completely drop all references to the google docs
> thingy and the -testers list there and redirect people simply to -bugs
> and/or hackers.

+1.

I'm not necessarily opposed to have a web interface, or even a
full-blown bug tracker, but having just read the wiki page about beta
testing, it sort of sounds like this was instituted as an official
policy. That seems like a questionable way to present it to me,
because I wasn't even aware that there was a google form.

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