Re: Commitfest overflow - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Commitfest overflow
Date
Msg-id 20210803155550.GF3639@momjian.us
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In response to Commitfest overflow  (Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Commitfest overflow  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Commitfest overflow  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
Re: Commitfest overflow  (Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Aug  3, 2021 at 04:53:40PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> There are 273 patches in the queue for the Sept Commitfest already, so
> it seems clear the queue is not being cleared down each CF as it was
> before. We've been trying hard, but it's overflowing.
> 
> Of those, about 50 items have been waiting more than one year, and
> about 25 entries waiting for more than two years.
> 
> One problem is that many entries don't have official reviewers, though
> many people have commented on Hackers, making it difficult to track
> down items that actually need work. That wastes a lot of time for
> would-be reviewers (or at least, it has done for me).
> 
> Please can there be some additional coordination to actively clear
> down this problem? I won't attempt to come up with ideas to do this,
> but others may wish to suggest ways that avoid Committer burn-out?
> 
> I will be happy to volunteer to be part of an organized approach that
> spreads out the work.

I wonder if our lack of in-person developer meetings is causing some of
our issues to not get closed.

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