Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: 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>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, 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 22:35:28
Message-ID: 470C0230.7090809@dunslane.net
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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.
>
>

I think this project has got too big for us to make things up as we go
along. We need to follow processes that are well understood and
transparent.

I have tried not to concentrate on Jan in this discussion. It could be
argued, however, that contrary to being the recipients of extra slack,
core members have a special responsibility to set a good example.

cheers

andrew

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