On 8/9/21 6:15 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 12:03:24AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
>> I'd like to apologize for not answering your email the way I should
>> have. Honestly it never occurred to me. Maybe that's because I'm used
>> to other procedures, or because I never had to converse with the RMT,
>> or maybe, quite simple, because I lacked the time to think it through,
>> the original issue that kind of started this whole mess.
> Agreed. When the RMT contacts me, I assume it is something that is time
> and release critical so I give them as much detail as I can, and a
> timeline when they will get more information. If you are not focused on
> the RMT process, it might not be clear why that is important.
>
That's what you should be doing. If nothing else comes from this
colloquy it should make all committers aware of the process. The reason
we have an RMT, as I understand it, is to prevent the situation we had
years ago when things sometimes dragged on almost interminably after
feature freeze.
cheers
andrew
