Re: What's our official stance on small self-contained additions in a micro version

Hi! > I know that our official release process allows that, but there are some > reasonable arguments against doing that and this topic was brought up > multiple times related to specific fixes. Adding an option I think it's ok provided it's not controversial and not an attempt to create entirely different large functionality hidden behind the option (e.g. "let's add an option to make mysql_connect also connect to Postgres databases"). If it's something that clearly a small functional piece that is missing, adding it I think is OK. If it's bigger (like entirely new functionality or substantial change in existing one) then it'd be better to go into next version. > I would like to know if we can come up with a rule which can have > consensus behind it, and maybe formalize it as an extension to our > current releaseprocess rfc. I'm not sure there's a formal rule that would be good for all cases. We can have guidelines but unless we reject all changes completely (which I strongly disagree with) I think we'll still have to consider them on the substance. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com