Re: 9.6 -> 10.0

On 9 May 2016 at 23:46, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > The question is whether others take an interest in doing the same thing
> for
> > pglogical. I suggest that it is more about acceptance of the technology
> than
> > it is about software quality, which is easy to measure. Perhaps that is
> just
> > a matter of time.
>
> Hmm, I don't agree with that. Craig Ringer said on February 18th that
> "I'm not sure anyone takes the pglogical downstream submission as a
> serious attempt at inclusion in 9.6". That was news to me; I had
> hoped very much that it was a serious attempt at inclusion in 9.6.
>

My understanding is he was referring to what others thought of the
submission, rather than what the authors themselves thought of it.

It was a serious attempt at inclusion as far as I was concerned and in my
impression how Craig and Petr treated it.

> So, I think this *is* about software quality. pglogical didn't miss
> 9.6 because hate got dumped on it; I would have been delighted to see
> it go into 9.6, as that would have been another point in favor of
> calling this release 10.0.

It missed 9.6 because of a lack of effort.
>

It's easy to read things people write and misunderstand them. We might
easily take the above as an admission that you deliberately didn't put any
effort into the patch review, though I'm sure that's not how you meant it.
We might take your meaning that the patch was not treated seriously by
myself or others, or merely that people were lazy; I think we can safely
ignore all of these possible interpretations and I'll take no offence from
your words.

pglogical didn't get in and we can all move on, since we get to do it all
again next year, together.

My comments in reply to Magnus were not about the state of the patch now,
they were about the state that pglogical might be in when Sept comes, and
whether we could safely rely on it being something the project could
mention in a press release at that time. That is a very different question
to what state it was in in March.

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