Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <wieck(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review
Date: 2007-10-09 22:29:55
Message-ID: 1191968995.4233.99.camel@ebony.site
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On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 00:19 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 17:55 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >> Simon Riggs wrote:
> >>> That close to
> >>> release, only Core members should be doing that and Jan is Core.
> >>>
> >
> >> My understanding (not being a member :-) ) is that Core is an
> >> administrative group, not a group of committers. Some members of Core
> >> are committers, some not, some committers are in Core, some not.
> >
> > By observation, all committers are not equal. If they are equal then we
> > must censure others also, as well as Jan, but I see no need personally.
> > If they are not equal, then Jan deserves extra leeway, IMHO. Either way,
> > we should not focus just upon Jan, especially when so many will thank
> > him for his actions.
>
> Correct, we certainly shouldn't focus on any one person. We should focus
> upon our own policies - were they broken or not. And if they weren't, it
> seems that the majority of people want those policies changed (for next
> time). If they were, what do we do about it?

Well for me: Nothing broke, so we needn't discuss policy at all.

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Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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