Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <wieck(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review
Date: 2007-10-09 22:31:57
Message-ID: 470C015D.3020809@hagander.net
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 00:19 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 17:55 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>>>> That close to
>>>>> release, only Core members should be doing that and Jan is Core.
>>>>>
>>>> My understanding (not being a member :-) ) is that Core is an
>>>> administrative group, not a group of committers. Some members of Core
>>>> are committers, some not, some committers are in Core, some not.
>>> By observation, all committers are not equal. If they are equal then we
>>> must censure others also, as well as Jan, but I see no need personally.
>>> If they are not equal, then Jan deserves extra leeway, IMHO. Either way,
>>> we should not focus just upon Jan, especially when so many will thank
>>> him for his actions.
>> Correct, we certainly shouldn't focus on any one person. We should focus
>> upon our own policies - were they broken or not. And if they weren't, it
>> seems that the majority of people want those policies changed (for next
>> time). If they were, what do we do about it?
>
> Well for me: Nothing broke, so we needn't discuss policy at all.

Well, buildfarm broke. But it's been fixed now.

Also, does that mean you volunteer to fix pginstaller, and any other
packages that needs it? ;-)

//Magnus

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