Re: 8.5 development schedule

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:13 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@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

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