From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Cc: | Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review |
Date: | 2007-10-10 02:24:25 |
Message-ID: | 200710100224.l9A2OP925701@momjian.us |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Devrim G?ND?Z wrote:
> > What we should to do is to prevent such things happening in the future,
> > rather than reverting this patch and delaying replication issues.
> >
> >
> >
>
> The next time the same sort of argument will be made. The way to prevent
> it in future is not to allow it now.
>
> One of the things that people seem to fail to appreciate is that it
> really looks very bad for us when an insider does this. The message we
> send to non-insiders is just dreadful. If we want to encourage people to
> participate in development then we should all play by the same rules.
> One of the things I have found most attractive about the PostgreSQL
> community, quite apart from the technical excellence of our product, is
> the community's openness, fairness and egalitarianism. And I know I'm
> not alone in that. We should guard those qualities jealously.
Andrew is right that the appearance here is the biggest problem, and I
already emailed that to Jan privately.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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