On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Seriously? In my opinion it has to be possible to doubt whether a patch
>> should be committed in certain release without it being interpreted as a
>> personal attack.
>
> I don't think anyone's said anything in this thread that amounts to a
> personal attack. We have a difference of opinion on policy, and what
> I'm saying is that the policy ultimately reduces to trusting individual
> committers to use their best judgment. If someone's going to tell me
> that my judgment about when to push something is not acceptable, then
> they probably ought to be calling for removal of my commit privileges.
Neither I nor anyone else is prepared to do that on the basis of what
happens to this one patch. But if we adopt a project policy that says
a committer can ignore the contrary opinions of other people, even
when those other people include multiple other committers, this
project will not, in the long term, be successful.
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