Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

From: "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: "Hannu Krosing" <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>
Cc: "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, "Marko Kreen" <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review
Date: 2007-10-10 05:44:00
Message-ID: 200710100744010000@869112027
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> > > We allow /contrib to be more lax about beta changes.
> >
> > the postgresql ecosystem is growing and there is a lot of people like
> > packagers that will be a quite irritated if we keep randomly adding
> > completely new code and modules during BETA.
>
> Should packagers be concerned with /contrib at all ?

Our users want it. Because we have important features that live there.

> As noted before /contrib is a technical way of ensuring that something
> gets updated together with core, not a recommendation to include it in a
> "package".

Then why did it get added there with the motivation that a lot of users will want it?

/Magnus

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