Re: 8.5 development schedule

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:13 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)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.

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