Re: 8.5 development schedule

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


You have correctly identified the requirement in the sentence quoted 
above. I for one am quite prepared to support core or some person 
designated by core having such authority. I agree with you that without 
something like that not much will improve.

cheers

andrew