Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > What I was complaining about is new feature patches for 9.5 arriving > after the start of the last CF. There has to be some date after which > a patch is too late to be considered for a given release, or we will > never ship a release. We can argue about what that date is, and it > can be different for different people if we so choose, but at the end > of the day, you have to cut it off someplace, or you never get the > release out.
Well, I'm going to push back on that concept a bit. I do not think the CF process is, or ever has been, meant to tell committers they can't work on things at times they find convenient. That would be holding back progress to little purpose. What the CF process is about is making sure that things don't slip through the cracks, and in particular that submissions from non-committers get due consideration on a reasonably timely basis. We do have a process in which even committers have to think twice about whether it's appropriate to push something, but that's feature freeze during alpha/beta/RC testing, and we are still a long way away from that stage for 9.5. Or in short: yes, the rules are different for committers and non committers. That's one of the reasons we are slow to hand out commit bits. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers