Re: Greetings from Sleepycat

[kf...@collab.net]

Gregory Burd <gb...@sleepycat.com> writes:
> 	I'm Greg, I work for Sleepycat.  We make Berkeley DB, but then
> you already knew that.  We consider Subversion's use of DB strategic
> and we'd like to make sure that you and the users of Subversion are
> happy with DB.  To that end, we are in the final stages of testing a
> new release of DB, 4.3.x, and we'd like to test it out with you before
> we release it.  If someone would volunteer to test it against
> Subversion I'll send them the URL for release candidate.  Also, I've
> opened a support request to track a database corruption issue.  We're
> confident that a closer partnership will help eliminate those issues
> and better integrate DB into Subversion.  I've subscribed to this
> email list and you'll find me lurking on #svn-dev and #svn as
> 'gregburd', feel free to say hi.

This is great, thanks Greg!  We'd definitely like to exorcise our BDB
problems (which could well be due to our usage of BDB, not to BDB
itself, to be fair).

I think you'll get a lot of people wanting to test.  Rather than make
each one of them seek you out personally, would it be possible for
Sleepycat to just post the URL to the release candidate?  As long as
it's clearly labeled as a candidate, people will know what they're
getting into.  We do this with Subversion releases, as you may already
know.

If posting the URL doesn't work with Sleepcat's marketing/release
strategy, I understand.  But be aware that you'll probably get a lot
of requests from people here wanting to test 4.3.x.

Starting with me :-).  If you can't post it to the list, then please
send me that URL by private email.

-Karl

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