Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > 
> > > The current "(UN)Happy column dropping" discussion, frankly seems to
> > > stem much from jealousy - hands off my tree, we allow only _purfect_
> > > contributions.
> > 
> > I don't expect any contribution to be perfect ... I do expect those that
> > are committing code directly to the source tree to take a few minutes and
> > think before they do so.  Peter *knew* there were implementation flaws to
> > what he added, yet he implemented it anyway, without asking anyone else
> > for comments and/or suggestions on how those flaws could be avoided ... if
> > Peter didn't have commit access, he would have had to submit those patches
> > for review before having them applied, just like Alfred recently went
> > through with his libpq changes ...
> 
> But he is not done.  What does it matter if he does 1/2 now and 1/2 in a
> week, as long as it is done before beta?  As long as the tree still
> compiles, does it matter?
> 
> Let him fix 50 TODO items 1/2 way.  If he finishes them by beta, great.
> If not, we can vote on a ripout/disable before beta begins.

And if 5 of those 50 that he does finish rely on 45 that he doesn't?  I'm
just saying that 24hr of discussion before implementation might have come
up with a cleaner solution to the problem ...

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