Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 5/16/07, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:
> > Set a fixed date (ie. 3 weeks) and whatever isn't in gets punted to 8.4 ... if
> > that means those 'large patches' don't get applied, so be it ...
>
> I disagree with that approach. Larger more complex patches required
> much more work and effort than small, simple ones. Not only do I
> think it's unfair to the authors who spent considerably more time on
> their work, but I think it also sets a bad precedent for future work;
> saying, in short, that if you want to make large strides to improve
> PostgreSQL, and you followed the community development process, you're
> still potentially last in line for review.

Yep. We lose a lot of credibility if we did that.

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