Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> > Define "make that date"? That is the problem.
>
> Not committed by that date. I guess that leaves the issue of picking
> a particular time in a particular time zone, but it doesn't otherwise
> seem ambiguous.
>
> Picture the New York Subway system. You're coming down the stairs and
> the train is in sight. You either make it through the doors before
> they close, or you don't. If you don't, you wait for the next train.
> The system would never work if they held up the train for everyone in
> sight of the train who hoped to get on to avoid the wait. Nobody is
> throwing their weight around when those doors close; it's just how the
> system works.
The problem is that the committers control the commit date, but the one
seen as punished for a rejected patch is not the committers but the
submitter.
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