Re: 8.5 development schedule

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It comes down to somebody having the willingness to say "no" and the
>> authority to make it stick.  Robert mentioned upthread that the
>> committers don't want to be seen as throwing their weight around,

> Is that the purpose of core? To make exactly those decisions? 

Core has never seen itself as intended to make feature-by-feature
decisions.  People seem to be willing to defer to us on release
schedule-setting, but it's not clear to me that the community has
delegated us more authority than that.
        regards, tom lane