Re: Feature freeze progress report - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Feature freeze progress report
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Msg-id 20070502173714.GC11219@svr2.hagander.net
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In response to Re: Feature freeze progress report  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 06:44:12AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > As an example, how is patch information going to help us review HOT or
> > > group-item-index?  There is frankly more information about these in the
> > > archives than someone could reasonable read.  What someone needs is a
> > > summary of where we are now on the patches, and lots of time.
> > > 
> > > FYI, Tom, Heikki, I need one of you to post the list of patches and
> > > where we think we are on each one, even if the list is imperfect.
> > 
> > I think you just contradicted yourself. Information isn ot the problem, but
> > you need more information...
> > 
> > I think this is a fairly clear indication that we do need a better way to
> > track this information.
> 
> No, my point is that 100% information is already available by looking at
> email archives.

Yes, and hard to find.

>  What we need is a short description of where we are on
> each patch --- that is a manual process, not something that can be
> automated.

Right. But it can be presented in a central way and incrementally updated.


> Tom has posted it --- tell me how we will get such a list in an
> automated manner.

There's no way to get it automated, but you can get it incrementally
updated.

//Magnus



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