Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:15:11 -0300
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>,
	Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Feature freeze progress report
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- --On Sunday, April 29, 2007 21:30:36 +0200 Stefan Kaltenbrunner 
<stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:

> not sure I fully agree here - I think we could do a bit better on the
> "bug tracking front" but it is a bit unclear if we cn honestly sy that
> "the current process" does not work or is not going to scale in the
> future. Complex patches need time - sometimes much more time than a
> release or even two release cycles - it's unclear if trying to get those
> in more agressively (by having more commiters or applying them earlier)
> might not actually cause more harm due to -HEAD getting less stable and
> causing developers to spend time hunting regressions.

re: -HEAD getting less stable ... we wouldn't be adding just anyone as a 
committer, only those that are trusted to know what they are doing ... even 
'slapping in a patch', I would expect it to have some sort of preliminary 
review by *someone* with a bit of knowledge in that aspect of the code ...

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