Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> ... But from my point of view it would
> just always be better to commit large patches immediately after forking a
> release instead of just before the beta to give them a whole release cycle of
> exposure to developers before beta testers.
I'm in favor of such an approach for this work, but it'll never fly as a
general project policy. People already dislike the fact that it takes
up to a year before their work gets reflected into a public release.
With such a policy we'd be telling developers "whatever you submit won't
see the light of day for one to two years". Not good for a project that
depends on the willingness of developers to scratch their own itches.
However, we are getting off onto a tangent. I wasn't trying to start
a discussion about general project policies, but about the specific
status of this particular group of patches.
regards, tom lane
