| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: 8.5 development schedule |
| Date: | 2009-07-01 22:05:26 |
| Message-ID: | 200907012205.n61M5Q600813@momjian.us |
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > Define "make that date"? That is the problem.
>
> Not committed by that date. I guess that leaves the issue of picking
> a particular time in a particular time zone, but it doesn't otherwise
> seem ambiguous.
>
> Picture the New York Subway system. You're coming down the stairs and
> the train is in sight. You either make it through the doors before
> they close, or you don't. If you don't, you wait for the next train.
> The system would never work if they held up the train for everyone in
> sight of the train who hoped to get on to avoid the wait. Nobody is
> throwing their weight around when those doors close; it's just how the
> system works.
The problem is that the committers control the commit date, but the one
seen as punished for a rejected patch is not the committers but the
submitter.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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