Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review
Date: 2007-10-10 03:56:10
Message-ID: 20071009205610.3dda552a@scratch
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:25:49 +0300
Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net> wrote:

> As noted before /contrib is a technical way of ensuring that something
> gets updated together with core, not a recommendation to include it
> in a "package".
>
> Arguably, a good packager should make its own decisions about what to
> include in his/her/its packages, which may include stuff from
> pgfoundry and also may omit stuff from /contrib .
>

In a perfect world sure, in the real world... it gets packaged and
tested as postgresql-contrib :)

Joshua D. Drake

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