Re: [PATCH] cleanup hashindex for pg_migrator hashindex compat mode (for 8.4)

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:45:33AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> David,
>
> * David Fetter (david(at)fetter(dot)org) wrote:
> > It's pretty relevant as far as the schedule goes. I'm not alone
> > thinking that the appropriate place to make this change, given
> > buildfarm support, is at the transition to 8.5.
> >
> > CVS is dead. Long live git! :)
>
> I'm all for moving to git, but not until at least the core folks are
> more familiar with it and have been using it.

Which ones aren't familiar and haven't been using it for at least the
past year? I count two.

> I don't believe that experience will be there by the time we open
> for 8.5 and a forced march when we have numerous big things
> hopefully hitting on the first commitfest seems like a bad idea.

Your portrayal of a rough and complicated transition is not terribly
well supported by other projects' switches to git.

> I would encourage core, committers and contributors to start
> becoming familiar with git on the expectation that we'll be making
> that move when we open for 8.6/9.0.
>
> Ideally, there could be an official decision made about when it's
> going to happen followed by an announcment when 8.4 is released.
>
> Thoughts?

Here's mine: Git delayed is git denied.

Cheers,
David.
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