On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:13 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> It comes down to somebody having the willingness to say "no" and the > >> authority to make it stick. Robert mentioned upthread that the > >> committers don't want to be seen as throwing their weight around, > > > Is that the purpose of core? To make exactly those decisions? > > Core has never seen itself as intended to make feature-by-feature > decisions. People seem to be willing to defer to us on release > schedule-setting, but it's not clear to me that the community has > delegated us more authority than that.
I would agree that having core decide on specific features is probably a stretch but having core set a cut date to which *all* patches that don't make that date? That seems within purview. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
