Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

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- --On Wednesday, May 16, 2007 21:04:27 -0400 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
wrote:

> Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>> On 5/16/07, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:
>> > Set a fixed date (ie. 3 weeks) and whatever isn't in gets punted to 8.4
>> > ... if that means those 'large patches' don't get applied, so be it ...
>>
>> I disagree with that approach. Larger more complex patches required
>> much more work and effort than small, simple ones. Not only do I
>> think it's unfair to the authors who spent considerably more time on
>> their work, but I think it also sets a bad precedent for future work;
>> saying, in short, that if you want to make large strides to improve
>> PostgreSQL, and you followed the community development process, you're
>> still potentially last in line for review.
>
> Yep. We lose a lot of credibility if we did that.

So, we lose no credibility if we sit in feature freeze indefinitely, with no
direction, while we wait for reviewers to finish reviewing?

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