Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing
Date
Msg-id 200705170009.l4H09iO24588@momjian.us
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In response to Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
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I think one of the things that is preventing urgency is that everyone
knows we have large patches unapplied, so they know that their lack of
activity is not holding up the release.  Any way around that?

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bruce wrote:
> In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review
> patches, I often get the reply, "Oh, yea, I need to do that".
> 
> Folks, we are six weeks into feature freeze and have made slim progress
> on getting patches reviewed and applied.  As I stated earlier, we are
> now looking at August/September for beta, but that might be pushed back
> even later if we don't get more progress.
> 
> It seems there is a lot of reliance on Tom to get the patches applied,
> but I don't think that is fair or reasonable.  I think we need more
> urgency on the part of everyone to make faster progress.  Patch
> reviewers and committers need to take more initiative to get things done
> rather than wait for some external force to prompt them.
> 
> -- 
>   Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>          http://momjian.us
>   EnterpriseDB                               http://www.enterprisedb.com
> 
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