Re: 8.5 development schedule

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.5 development schedule
Date: 2009-07-01 21:13:49
Message-ID: 16497.1246482829@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It comes down to somebody having the willingness to say "no" and the
>> authority to make it stick. Robert mentioned upthread that the
>> committers don't want to be seen as throwing their weight around,

> Is that the purpose of core? To make exactly those decisions?

Core has never seen itself as intended to make feature-by-feature
decisions. People seem to be willing to defer to us on release
schedule-setting, but it's not clear to me that the community has
delegated us more authority than that.

regards, tom lane

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