[postgis-devel] Re: [postgis-users] 1.3.4rc2 Released

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Obe, Regina wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> Good points.  It is always nice to have a patient person in the crowd to
> prevent impetuous
> people like me from acting too quickly.  We definitely need a new RC at
> anyrate since I think 
> we have made enough changes to make me scared of just going to
> production.

Yeah exactly; I've done a reasonable amount of bugfixing in this release 
and even I wouldn't be 100% confident that 1.3 could go into production 
without more comprehensive testing. For example, even though I try and 
make sure "make check" runs just before a commit, the crashes you have 
found recently have shown that the regression tests don't currently have 
enough coverage to make a release from SVN guaranteed to be crash free 
without more thorough testing.

IMO we need to declare 1.3 branch as "bug fix only", add 8.4 support and 
then put out another RC to the masses.


ATB,

Mark.

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