Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of jue jul 05 17:44:10 -0400 2012:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> >> IIRC we don't normally add this, because we don't want to "assign
> >> bugs" to things in beta. Also IIRC, didn't Berkus set up a whole
> >> separate list that people are supposed to report beta bugs on?
> >
> > Geez, I sure hope not, because if there is one I am not subscribed to it
> > (AFAIK), and I bet few other hackers are either. In any case, it's the
> > height of folly to imagine that people won't try to use the bug report
> > form for beta bugs.
>
> In that case, I definitely suggest we retire it. It's listed on both
> http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/ and in the archives, and is
> labeled as the one where to post such reports... I think the idea was
> that Josh was going to somehow "filter" the reports before putting
> them on -bugs, making sure they were proper, etc. And that the list
> would also take *positive* test results, which we definitely don't
> want listed as bugs. But I'm definitely +1 for getting rid of the
> distinction.
That list's traffic seems a bit on the low side -- surely we've had
people testing more recently than September 2011.
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