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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:34:05 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <[email protected]> writes:
> > No, it's not.   There's a bunch of patches which we had nothing on -- not 
> > spec, not design draft, not anything -- until we got them on July 20th.  
> > Our current system is to have only one deadline,
> 
> Well, no, it's not.  We have told people till we're blue in the face
> "post early, post often".  Now I will plead guilty to not always having
> spent as much time giving feedback on draft patches as I should've, but
> the process is pretty clear.  As I see it the main problem is people
> undertaking patches off in corners somewhere rather than discussing
> their work on the mailing lists while they do it.
> 
> If you want more process in this we could institute rules like "feature
> patches will be rejected out of hand if there wasn't previously a spec
> proposal posted to pghackers".  I don't think this is really a good
> idea, but I'm not sure what else to do.

Well stated.

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