From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200303142025.h2EKPE421255@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Prepare and prepare ?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302141301170.8977-100000@elfride.ineffable.net>
To: Rudy Lippan <rlippan@remotelinux.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:25:14 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Dominic Mitchell <dom@semantico.com>,
	pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org, David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net>,
	dbi-dev@perl.org
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To answer your question from a month ago :-), we should have CVS tagged
the 1.21 release, but we forgot.  I didn't think we were big enough to
tag things. :-)

We don't have any master plan on development --- we just discuss items
and apply patches.

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Rudy Lippan wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > Well at the moment, backwards compatibility is limited to one system at 
> > our place that needed the funtionality right now.  We'll change it to 
> > use whatever DBD::Pg comes with, however.
> 
> Right, but once it goes into a public release (eg. DBD::Pg 1.22) then you 
> are stuck supporting it/making a migration path.
> 
> > > With 2, the patch goes in as is and  backwards compatibility does not 
> > > get broken in the next version.  Just a thought. 
> > 
> > #2 sounds good to me.
> >
> 
> The we go this route.
> 
> > The flag was called, "pg_do_utf8", but "pg_enable_utf8" might be a 
> > better name.
> > 
> 
> Agreed.  pg_enable_utf8 the flag is, then.  I'll go apply the patch --
> changing pg_do_utf8 to pg_enable_utf8.
> 
> 
> 
> David/Bruce,
> 
> 1. Looking over CVS I don't see a release tag for 1.21.  It would proably
> be better for whoever did the export of 1.21 to tag up, but if you want I
> will set up a release tag for 1.21?
> 
> 2. What is the procedure for adding patches, closing bugs, working with
> tasks, and working with feature requests on GBorg...  Is there a place
> where I can get an overview of how things are done?
> 
> 
>  -r 
> 
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