Re: No answers on CommitFest procedures? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: No answers on CommitFest procedures?
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Msg-id 20080709183854.GF3946@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: No answers on CommitFest procedures?  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: No answers on CommitFest procedures?  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 10:58 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Have received exactly zero feedback on the question of whether I should 
> > be assigning reviewers to "WIP" patches or not.
> 
> I suppose it depends on what exactly "WIP" means, but I should think
> that if work is still "in progress", the patch is not ready to be
> reviewed yet. Patches that are truly WIP probably shouldn't be
> candidates for a commit fest until they are finished, anyway.

But patches in progress still need comments from reviewers.  Either the
developer needs to change direction, or he needs someone to comment on
what the future direction needs to be.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.


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