> -----Original Message----- > From: Nigel J. Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:30 PM > To: Dann Corbit > Cc: scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; > PostgreSQL-development > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze [snip] > So you've never worked on a project where the data is of high > value, since in those circumstances the customer is always > going to apply their own acceptance testing anyway. If you > think that doesn't happen you try sitting through 2 solid > days of Y2k testing on _one_ system and tell me customers > never do their own testing.
Here's an old copy of my resume. You be the judge: ftp://cap.connx.com/C.A.P.%20Biographies/DannCorbit.htm#_Toc441048186 The burden of reliablity testing must not rest solely on the end user. That constitutes negligence on the part of the software vendor (IMO-YMMV). > > Therefore, I am going to stop harping on it. > > But there is no need to, as has been mentioned before, if the > testing is not upto your level of testing submit something > that makes it so. Having said that I do believe you mentioned > that you didn't have the time to create something but you > would be happy to test it, i.e. test the test. I may or may not have time to work on a software test system for PostgreSQL. I do a lot of PostgreSQL work here, and at some point I think I will have valuable contributions to the project. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings