> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 8:18 PM
> To: Sean Utt
> Cc: Andrew Dunstan; Joshua D. Drake; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql Materialized views
>
> "Sean Utt" <sean@strateja.com> writes:
> > My point is simply this: The lack of a clear formal process for feature
> > requests leads to this degradation in the conversation.
>
> Two comments:
>
> 1) The existing informal process has served us very well for more than
> ten years now. I'm disinclined to consider replacing it, because that
> would risk altering the community's dynamics for the worse.
>
> 2) In the end, this is an open source *community*; no amount of formal
> feature requesting will have any material impact on what actually gets
> implemented, because there isn't any central control.
Wow. Being new to Open Source, this amazes me.
> What gets
> implemented is whatever individual contributors choose to work on,
> either because they find it interesting or (in some cases) because
> someone pays them to do something specific. Certainly, some
> contributors pay attention to what's being requested, but I see no
> reason to think that increasing the level of formality will help them.
What happens when a person adds a feature or changes the architecture of the
database that is perceived by some as incorrect or going in the wrong
direction?
Jon