On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:34:35AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
Patches to the core are expected to reach a higher standard of assurance than patches to the contrib modules. This is to ensure we retain the stability for the core feature set.
I would hope people agree that this policy has helped contribute to robustness and reliability of the core system over several releases now.
That's a good policy, unfortunately inconsistently enforced, which is what
causes the trouble. see e.g. a patch which apparently went into core
without review
Thu Dec 27 00:03:56 PST 2007 Spencer Janssen