Hi, On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 at 14:31, Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 at 22:55, Andres Freund <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd be interested in feedback about how high folks value different aspects: > > My thoughts below.
I agree with all of Jelte's points except: > > 4) CI tests as many operating systems as possible > > I think we at minimum need linux+macos+windows. Windows is by far the > system that fails most often for me. BSDs would be good, but they > often tend to be fine if osx and linux work. Personally for me I think > on Cirrus The BSDs didn't meet the useful signal to flakiness noise > ratio (i.e. they tended to mostly break randomly for me). I think BSDs are quite capable of catching issues that others can't catch. That has at least been my experience with OpenBSD. However, I agree that OpenBSD and NetBSD tasks are flaky; I think that is mostly because we generate these VM images from scratch (i.e. other operating systems' VM images were already available on GCP). I don't think FreeBSD is flaky. -- Regards, Nazir Bilal Yavuz Microsoft
