Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
>> or we need to discuss something that would embarrass someone if it
>> were publically known.
> Personal opinions are of course private. Can you think of an example of a
> secret embarrassing item that has affected the direction of the project?
> I'd be fascinated!
There have been a couple of cases where core has decided that a committer
needed to be admonished ("yo, mon, why you committing new features
during beta freeze?" or something like that). Marc has generally done
the admonishing with a cc to core, but we don't embarrass people in
public. I don't propose to name names here for obvious reasons.
Another class of properly-private discussions have been reports of
security-related bugs; that sort of thing seems best not mentioned
too widely on the public lists until a fix is available. (BTW, if
you ever have a security bug report that you don't think ought to be
mentioned in the public archives, send it to pgsql-core.)
Dunno about "affecting the course of the project". I don't think that
core as core has all that much influence on the course of the project.
Timing (release schedule) yes, because people allow us to decree that,
but direction no.
regards, tom lane