Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta
Date
Msg-id 20060902015209.GC14288@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > It pulls my a mailbox file I use, and it does instant updates as soon
> > > as I change it.  It is a URL.  Why do people care where it is?
> > 
> > The complaint has been that not enough people help with reviewing 
> > patches.  That would indicate that the problem is not location but 
> > scalability.  If everything has to go through your private mailbox, 
> > then it's not a very obvious process to outsiders.
> 
> Well, you can grab items from there and apply them.  I will remove them
> from the mailbox when I see the commit.   You have another system that
> will not be significantly more work?  Any you can apply them right from
> the email lists so they never get to the queue.

Another novel idea: have a "bugtracker" of sorts where selected people
can add "feature requests" and append patches to them.  There, people
could add "fake" feature requests describing the stuff they are working
on, and publish the patches they have for them.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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