Re: Skytools committed without hackers discussion/review

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>>>>     
>>>>> I don't see how timing has anything to do with this.  You could have
>>>>> added it between beta1 and beta2 after sufficient hackers discussion. 
>>>>>       
>>>> Uh, it *was* after beta1.
>>>>     
>>> Oh, so it didn't hold up beta1 --- that's good.
>>>
>>>   
>> No it's not.
>>
>> Can somebody please explain to me what beta means if you can commit new 
>> stuff after it has been declared?
> 
> We allow /contrib to be more lax about beta changes.

the postgresql ecosystem is growing and there is a lot of people like
packagers that will be a quite irritated if we keep randomly adding
completely new code and modules during BETA.


Stefan