Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing
Date: 2007-05-17 00:53:29
Message-ID: 36e682920705161753m68a030fdrdd5bcc5d32351d38@mail.gmail.com
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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.

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