Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <wieck(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review
Date: 2007-10-10 08:19:11
Message-ID: 1192004351.4233.151.camel@ebony.site
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On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 07:08 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 18:35 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> > I think this project has got too big for us to make things up as we go
> > along. We need to follow processes that are well understood and
> > transparent.
>
> Well said, I very much agree.
>
> Mostly we do, but since we've just spent more than 6 months between
> Feature Freeze and Beta. There were no well understood or transparent
> processes during that period, so nobody is on solid ground trying to
> enforce a small number of rules with a single individual. Especially
> when discussing what might be argued was a major item in 8.3

I should add that I'm not unhappy about how things have happened and I
have no complaints to lodge anywhere with anybody. Just wanted to give
Jan a bit of moral support, and I've done that now, so time for me to
stop.

--
Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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