Re: [HACKERS] Re: Freezing docs for v6.5 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: Freezing docs for v6.5
Date
Msg-id 199906031842.OAA22241@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Re: Freezing docs for v6.5  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Re: Freezing docs for v6.5
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> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > If the 'bugs' aren't something new we created since v6.4.2, leave them
> > > alone...would be nice to fix them, but nobody expected them to work to
> > > date, so leavign it for v6.6 (or even a v6.5.1) is acceptable...
> > > 
> > 
> > Isn't minor bugfixing in 6.5.1 a no-no.  We only do major fixes in those
> > minor releases, right?
> 
> *raised eyebrow*  Wouldn't minor-bugfixing be "safer" then major ones?
> 

I thought we only fixed must-fix bugs in minor releases because there
was too much of a risk that any fix will break too many things, and
there is little testing of minor releases, so we fix as few things as
possible.


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