Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes: > No, it's not. There's a bunch of patches which we had nothing on -- not > spec, not design draft, not anything -- until we got them on July 20th. > Our current system is to have only one deadline,
Well, no, it's not. We have told people till we're blue in the face "post early, post often". Now I will plead guilty to not always having spent as much time giving feedback on draft patches as I should've, but the process is pretty clear. As I see it the main problem is people undertaking patches off in corners somewhere rather than discussing their work on the mailing lists while they do it. If you want more process in this we could institute rules like "feature patches will be rejected out of hand if there wasn't previously a spec proposal posted to pghackers". I don't think this is really a good idea, but I'm not sure what else to do. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq