Re: 8.5 development schedule - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 8.5 development schedule
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Msg-id 16742.1246501772@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 8.5 development schedule  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: 8.5 development schedule
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> There has been discussion about how to be more hard-nosed about
> rejecting patches.  I think it has to start with us being more
> hard-nosed about giving patches feedback --- the very idea we had to
> create commit-fests reflects that we historically have not done an
> organized job of processing patches.

> If we review patches as soon as they appear, and give rapid feedback, we
> can easily reject patches that take more than a few days for the patch
> author to resolve, and there would be little slippage;  the same goes
> for dealing with known bugs.  I know it can be done, but I don't promise
> it would be pleasant.

In other words, you propose dropping the idea of commitfests, and
expecting committers to spend *all* their time reviewing?  Tain't
happening.
        regards, tom lane


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