Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:13 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > "Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > >> It comes down to somebody having the willingness to say "no" and the > > >> authority to make it stick. Robert mentioned upthread that the > > >> committers don't want to be seen as throwing their weight around, > > > > > Is that the purpose of core? To make exactly those decisions? > > > > Core has never seen itself as intended to make feature-by-feature > > decisions. People seem to be willing to defer to us on release > > schedule-setting, but it's not clear to me that the community has > > delegated us more authority than that. > > I would agree that having core decide on specific features is probably a > stretch but having core set a cut date to which *all* patches that don't > make that date? That seems within purview.
Define "make that date"? That is the problem. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
