Andrew Sullivan wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:23:09AM -0500, Cory Vokey wrote:
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>>Hi all, could anyone advise as to the expected release date of slony
>>1.1.
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>I think the usual answer to this is "when it's ready".  There isn't
>even an -rc tarball yet.  But people are anxious to have tests
>completed.  So if you have time for evaluation, checking out CVS HEAD
>and  putting it through paces would be good.
>
>One thing worth noting is that we really don't have a regression
>suite for it in general yet (we have stuff inside Afilias that uses
>our applications, so we can't release that part; but it only really
>looks for things we've had experience with).  Reports of ways to make
>it fail are always welcome.
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Indeed.

There is a well-defined place to put tests; the "src/ducttape" directory 
contains a set of shell scripts that test out a number of conditions.

In the recent past, I have added in test_7_defines, which tests out the 
new "include" and "define" slonik features, and test_8_logship, which 
does some tests on the new log shipping functionality.

Unfortunately, there are conditions which are difficult to set up tests 
for.  Any assistance in adding scripts to test particular failure cases 
would be very much appreciated.

I have been reviewing the bugs and feature requests on the GBorg site to 
see what needs to be addressed; there are only two assigned items there 
at present, namely an OSF/1 "configure" change I'm hoping Darcy will 
take a peek at, and a minor change to watchdogs that isn't particularly 
vital.

I see two things at this point holding up a 1.1 release candidate:

 1.  Lack of wider testing of log shipping (I have done a bit of work on 
this, but can't quite call it comprehensive; it needs more eyes than mine)

 2. There's a cleanup thread function I added to look for the "most 
elderly XID" which I don't yet trust if there are XIDs > 2^31; that 
needs some extra eyes.

 3.  Unavailability at this point of a Windows(tm) port isn't holding 
things up...

If some people can check out CVS (which ought to work; I'm recompiling 
it on a regular basis with good success) and try out log shipping, so 
that there's more reports than merely mine, then that's the point at 
which release candidates will start heading out.