Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> > The current "(UN)Happy column dropping" discussion, frankly seems to
> > stem much from jealousy - hands off my tree, we allow only _purfect_
> > contributions.
> 
> I don't expect any contribution to be perfect ... I do expect those that
> are committing code directly to the source tree to take a few minutes and
> think before they do so.  Peter *knew* there were implementation flaws to
> what he added, yet he implemented it anyway, without asking anyone else
> for comments and/or suggestions on how those flaws could be avoided ... if
> Peter didn't have commit access, he would have had to submit those patches
> for review before having them applied, just like Alfred recently went
> through with his libpq changes ...

But he is not done.  What does it matter if he does 1/2 now and 1/2 in a
week, as long as it is done before beta?  As long as the tree still
compiles, does it matter?

Let him fix 50 TODO items 1/2 way.  If he finishes them by beta, great.
If not, we can vote on a ripout/disable before beta begins.

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