| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Patch committers |
| Date: | 2009-11-11 19:51:20 |
| Message-ID: | 200911111951.nABJpK814569@momjian.us |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > For example, probably only Simon and Heikki are knowledge enough to
> > apply the HS and SR patchs --- but those patch is handled. The harder
> > part is the other patches where there are only a small pool of people
> > knowledgeable enough to apply the patch, but many of those knowledgeable
> > people are tied up with non-community things.
>
> People learn to do this by doing it. That's how you learned, and Tom
> and Heikki. Ultimately, it's a source code control system; if someone
> screws up, we can always back it out.
True, but even I avoid patches I don't understand, and "practicing" by
applying them could lead to a very undesirable outcome, e.g.
instability.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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