Le jeudi 29 octobre 2009 à 02:13:51, Greg Smith a écrit :
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Thom Brown wrote:
> > All we have are a summary of changes. We can find out all the
> > information if we do plenty of searching of mailing lists and comparing
> > old and new documentation, but obviously this can be off-putting and is
> > duplicated for everyone who wants to participate in testing.
>
> For the last release, we had some people who updated blogs etc. with usage
> examples for many of the new major features. That doesn't seem to be
> happening as well for the 8.5 development.
>
I was thinking about this too. Lack of time, I suppose. But anyways, some blog
notes are interesting for testers, but hard to find if you need to go on
different blogs. All that kind of informations need to be found quite easily,
and the better way to do this is to put all of them in the same place. Maybe
the wiki can be such a place.
> In any case, the whole process is still being worked out. I for example
> and working on some instructions for doing performance regression testing
> of the alpha releases. There actually is a full regression test suite
> that gets runs all the time on many platforms. The point of the alphas is
> actually for you to try *your* tests, not for everyone to test the same
> thing.
>
> There is another route to get information here that might be a bit easier
> than directly looking up things in the mailing lists or commit logs.
> Each alpha is being generated after a CommitFest period during which
> patches are commited. The web application organizing that process
> provides one way to more easily find the relevant discussion leading up
> that patch being applied, and many of those include better/more obvious
> examples and documentation. The current alpha2 is based on the results of
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=3
>
I didn't think about this, but it seems to be a better way to build this kind
of document than browsing the commit mailing list. I'll try to write something
according to informations available in 2009-07
(https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=2) and 2009-09
(https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=3) commitfest.
I'll begin the work next monday.
--
Guillaume.
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