Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > One more issue. Until we start RC, patches that are bug fixes will > > continue to be applied. Do we want that? By going RC we are basically > > saying we need to focus on docs and packaging and we perhaps can keep > > fixes for 8.0.1. > > In my mind "RC" means "only critical bug fixes" --- ie, just because > it's a bug fix doesn't mean it won't be held for later. But RC doesn't > mean "no changes, period". It means we're trying to test the thing > without any more code churn than absolutely necessary. > > The real problem at the moment is that we should have been in an "only > bug fixes" mode for some time already, and you just pushed in two or > three patches that look more like feature additions to me (and I gather > to Peter as well). *That* is the reason people are getting antsy about > whether we are RC-ready.
I honestly can't tell whether these are bug fixes or not, especially the encoding changes, so I put them in the queue and when no one says anything I apply them. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
