Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review
Date: 2007-10-09 19:14:13
Message-ID: 470BD305.50600@hagander.net
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>>>
>>>> I don't see how timing has anything to do with this. You could have
>>>> added it between beta1 and beta2 after sufficient hackers
>>>> discussion.
>>> Uh, it *was* after beta1.
>>>
>>
>> Oh, so it didn't hold up beta1 --- that's good.
>>
>>
>
> No it's not.
>
> Can somebody please explain to me what beta means if you can commit new
> stuff after it has been declared?

Yeah, I'd like to know that as well. And specifically what kind of stuff
it is that's ok...

If nothing else, that'll be good to know for packagers. Due to the
addition of this module we'll have to make code changes that aren't just
bugfixes to the win32 installer for example, which is also in feature
freeze...

//Magnus

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