Thank you for this. Just opted out. They certainly made that page as hard as possible to find. Figuring out how to change my routers DNS server was also made needlessly complex.
Most of the parent comments in this thread did not seem to understand the article. So here’s the tl;dr
Postgres release is delayed due to the quality bar getting raised. New features are getting more eyeballs, and therefore leading to more rollbacks. Pre-existing releases are getting bug reports and backported fixes at much higher rate. Bug fixing might be taking away time from feature development, but does harden the codebase. LLM usage seems to have been a net positive.
During an internship I worked on optical transport network equipment. Most customers were either submarine or long-haul across land. I was told that many clients would design redundantly, mainly due to people digging up the cables, chopping them in half with a shovel, and being disappointed when there was not much copper to steal.
Quebec gets weird with their french rules. Parents are not allowed to send their kids to English speaking schools if both of the parents did their own schooling in French.
Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, come easily to my mind. Switzerland is a very interesting counter-example because although the French-speaking cantons (Romandie) have French as the "prevalent language", meaning that public services are almost exclusively in French, in practice most people speak German too because they're pragmatic about language: the German kantons are the center of economic activity and not speaking German is a huge disadvantage. Quebec, par contre, is full of people that wistfully (I had intended to write "wishfully" but the auto complete was fantastic this time) think they can manage with speaking only French and ignore the rest of the world.
Your paranoia is typical of Quebec. You need professional help, Mon ami.
> Did you know there are tensions in Switzerland because there is a will to stop kids from learning French while they attend primary school?
I lived for a while in Zurich as well, and it was well known that kids are exiting high school being unable to speak the second language they supposedly studied.
> Do you know where Quebec is located?
Yeah, I'm in Montreal right now and have been living there for quite a while.
It's people who speak french not being able to make a choice about their children's education, yes it's weird, and no it's not judgemental to wonder why parents can't make a very basic decision in their child's education.
I started programming when Java 6 was relatively new. Back then it was about 3-4 years in between releases. Although I don’t write much Java any more, I’m happy to see changes shipping more frequently now.
I interviewed with Microsoft at the end of 2016 as a new grad and was given the same marble question over the phone. I then made it to the on site interview where I failed horribly haha.
IMO a release workflow would be better with something like this:
1) Upload all files in a staging state. Can be done asynchronously via multiple build hosts. Files in this state are referenced via their cryptographic checksums (e.g. SHA, Blake, etc)
2) Make visible with a single call by providing a manifest with checksums for all source dists/wheels contained in the release. All artifacts are made visible atomically and the release is immutable.
That allows authors to prepare uploads over however many days they need to coordinate hardware, but doesn’t allow for users to discover a release in a partial state.
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