> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com] 
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:50 PM
> To: Dann Corbit; Jan Wieck
> Cc: scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; 
> PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze
> 
> 
> Dann,
> 
> > Astute members of the list have noticed that I have not 
> volunteered to 
> > perform the work.  I may or may not produce some efforts towards 
> > testing PostgreSQL.  Whether I decide to help or not is irrelevant 
> > towards the concept of what needs to be done.
> 
> It is not irrelevant.  This is an Open Source project, not 
> some Dot-Com where 
> you can float good ideas until you go bankrupt.   If there's 
> no possibility 
> of us getting a major 3rd-party certified battery of QA tests 
> donated, why 
> bother putting it on the TODO list?
> 
> Would it be nice if we had more tests?  Yes.  In fact, one of 
> the items on my 
> personal todo list is to devise a more versatile performance 
> test than 
> pgbench for testing postgresql parameters, builds, and 
> installations.  But 
> it's not getting done by me carping at people on the Hackers 
> list.  It'll get 
> done when I spend a long weekend writing Perl.
> 
> Put up or shut up time, Dann.

It's shut up, then.  I'm not willing to commit to this effort.

Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:52:46 -0700
"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>
Re: Two weeks to feature freeze
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Dann Corbit wrote:

> > Would it be nice if we had more tests?  Yes.  In fact, one of
> > the items on my
> > personal todo list is to devise a more versatile performance
> > test than
> > pgbench for testing postgresql parameters, builds, and
> > installations.  But
> > it's not getting done by me carping at people on the Hackers
> > list.  It'll get
> > done when I spend a long weekend writing Perl.
> >
> > Put up or shut up time, Dann.
>
> It's shut up, then.  I'm not willing to commit to this effort.

Woo hoo ... now *that* was the longest, useless thread I think we've had
here so far .. we almost need to start a 'hall of shameful threads' ...


Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:28:23 -0300 (ADT)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Re: Two weeks to feature freeze