On 09/10/2011 02:52 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tis, 2011-09-06 at 11:41 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> I think the alphas have been extremely valuable for testing.
>
> That's not my recollection. Obviously, it's hard to measure this one
> way or the other, but I don't recall there being a lot of test reports
> from people who are not already contributors and could have used some
> other way to get the code.
>
>
As a tester, I'll pull from git. I like a quick update from git pull.
When I'm playing with patches, its a simple:
git reset --hard
patch < ...
I can't speak for others, but I find no benefit from a packaged alpha release.
-Andy
