Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)

Greetings,

* Andres Freund (andres(at)anarazel(dot)de) wrote:
> On 2019-06-17 14:34:58 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > * Andres Freund (andres(at)anarazel(dot)de) wrote:
> > > On 2019-06-14 23:14:09 +0100, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> > > > So here is my current proposed fix.
> > >
> > > Before pushing a commit that's controversial - and this clearly seems to
> > > somewhat be - it'd be good to give others a heads up that you intend to
> > > do so, so they can object. Rather than just pushing less than 24h later,
> > > without a warning.
> >
> > Seems like that would have meant a potentially very late commit to avoid
> > having a broken (for some value of broken anyway) point release (either
> > with new code, or with reverting the timezone changes previously
> > committed), which isn't great either.
>
> > In general, I agree with you, and we should try to give everyone time to
> > discuss when something is controversial, but this seems like it was at
> > least a bit of a tough call.
>
> Hm? All I'm saying is that Andrew's email should have included something
> to the effect of "Due to the upcoming release, I'm intending to push and
> backpatch the attached fix in ~20h".

Ah, ok, I agree that would have been good to do. Of course, hindsight
being 20/20 and all that. Something to keep in mind for the future
though.

Thanks,

Stephen