On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:27 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: >>At least this patch was posted on the lists before commit, unlike many >>others from many different people. And AFAIK there has never been such >>a >>rule.
The rules cannot possibly anticipate every situation or subtlety. The letter of the law is a slightly distinct thing to its spirit. > The more debatable a decision is, the more important it IMO becomes to give > people a chance to object. Don't think there needs to be a hard rule to > always announce an intent to commit. +1 Andres' remarks need to be seen in the context of the past couple of weeks, and in the context of this being a relatively high risk patch that was submitted quite late in the cycle. -- Peter Geoghegan
