Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On 12/11/14 1:35 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> While the commitfest process hasn't changed much and was very successful
>> in the first few years, a few things have changed externally:
>>
>> 1 more new developers involved in contributing small patches
>> 2 more full-time developers creating big patches
>> 3 increased time demands on experienced Postgres developers
> The number of patches registered in the commit fests hasn't actually
> changed over the years. It has always fluctuated between 50 and 100,
> depending on the point of the release cycle. So I don't think (1) is
> necessarily the problem.
Interesting point, but of course not all patches are equal; perhaps
the problem is that we're seeing fewer of (1) and more of (2) in the
commitfest queue. Is there any easy way to quantify the size/complexity
of the patches in past fests?
regards, tom lane