Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:24:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > Mind you, I'm in favor of one.  A new SCM would make some other
> > development tasks easier. However, I'm reluctant to open the
> > can-of-worms which is the "what SCM should we use" discussion
> > again, and complicate something which we seem to have consensus
> > on.

We don't need to, as the tool is already in place.

> As near as I can tell, the arguments for a new SCM mostly apply to
> work which individual developers are doing outside the main tree.
> So, given the existence of stuff like git-cvsimport, I don't see a
> strong reason why anyone who wants to work that way can't already
> sync the core CVS with a local SCM-of-their-choice and get on with
> it.
> 
> You're right that this is utterly unrelated to the scheduling
> question, anyway.

It's not even slightly unrelated.  It's a way of preventing bit-rot on
large patches and keeping them in sync :)

Cheers,
David.
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