Re: Feature freeze progress report

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Feature freeze progress report
Date: 2007-04-29 21:15:11
Message-ID: 106C3B1BC3370ACF52B59F28@ganymede.hub.org
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- --On Sunday, April 29, 2007 21:30:36 +0200 Stefan Kaltenbrunner
<stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:

> not sure I fully agree here - I think we could do a bit better on the
> "bug tracking front" but it is a bit unclear if we cn honestly sy that
> "the current process" does not work or is not going to scale in the
> future. Complex patches need time - sometimes much more time than a
> release or even two release cycles - it's unclear if trying to get those
> in more agressively (by having more commiters or applying them earlier)
> might not actually cause more harm due to -HEAD getting less stable and
> causing developers to spend time hunting regressions.

re: -HEAD getting less stable ... we wouldn't be adding just anyone as a
committer, only those that are trusted to know what they are doing ... even
'slapping in a patch', I would expect it to have some sort of preliminary
review by *someone* with a bit of knowledge in that aspect of the code ...

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