Thread: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice
Regarding the user survey "Where did you get your current production copy of PostgreSQL from?" I'd like to suggest adding CVS as a choice. -- Michael Fuhr
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Regarding the user survey "Where did you get your current production > copy of PostgreSQL from?" I'd like to suggest adding CVS as a choice. Yikes! Perhaps you overlooked the all-important "production" word of the question? :) Unless you are using cvs with specifically tagged releases. In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out as an answer, IMO. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200510101022 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFDSnmXvJuQZxSWSsgRAgMuAKCcMu1wT1z13g78TogA+SODMXd5tACcCrm/ ZwA1oX4dut1xmChCH+qJ+3g= =O0D7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:24:35PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > Regarding the user survey "Where did you get your current production > > copy of PostgreSQL from?" I'd like to suggest adding CVS as a choice. > > Yikes! Perhaps you overlooked the all-important "production" word of > the question? :) Unless you are using cvs with specifically tagged releases. No, I didn't overlook the word "production," although I anticipated that somebody might think so. CVS doesn't necessarily imply HEAD: I was indeed thinking of people who track tagged releases. > In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out > as an answer, IMO. Is CVS usage really that low? I don't know, not having seen any activity logs. -- Michael Fuhr
Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:24:35PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>> In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out
>> as an answer, IMO.
> Is CVS usage really that low? I don't know, not having seen any
> activity logs.
... and we'll never find out, if we take surveys that exclude the
possibility.
I concur with Michael that pulling the head of a release branch might be
a perfectly sane way to build a production installation. What if you
need a bug fix that's in CVS but not yet appeared in any dot-release?
regards, tom lane
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out >> as an answer, IMO. > Is CVS usage really that low? I don't know, not having seen any > activity logs. Don't know. I'm just guessing based on the approximate number of posters to hackers and patches. I guess it can't hurt to add it, but I still think it will be an outlier. Personally, I prefer to use the tarballs so that I can help spot any bugs that may have been introduced in the packaging process. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200510101112 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFDSoVPvJuQZxSWSsgRAgV4AJ9x1Uhwx7STMpiDFXJ0Ml5VtuKX9ACfXkq6 9m7YKnmeFIK4rHTP2czLdOg= =/pWb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:14:35PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > >> In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out > >> as an answer, IMO. > > > Is CVS usage really that low? I don't know, not having seen any > > activity logs. > > Don't know. I'm just guessing based on the approximate number of posters > to hackers and patches. I guess it can't hurt to add it, but I still > think it will be an outlier. Personally, I prefer to use the tarballs > so that I can help spot any bugs that may have been introduced in the > packaging process. So that's one data point. Shouldn't conclusions about the population in general be based on survey results instead of on a priori assumptions? Otherwise what's the point of the survey? -- Michael Fuhr
BTW, shouldn't we at least have a link to the survey on the front page, if not the survey itself? On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:24:56AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: > Regarding the user survey "Where did you get your current production > copy of PostgreSQL from?" I'd like to suggest adding CVS as a choice. > > -- > Michael Fuhr > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend > -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
On Monday 10 October 2005 20:31, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> BTW, shouldn't we at least have a link to the survey on the front page,
> if not the survey itself?
>
When we did the site redesign last year, it got nixed from the front page. If
you have a perticular spot you'd like to put the link lmk and we can try it.
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Robert Treat
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