On 2021-Oct-02, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah. I have been thinking of looking through the oldest CF entries
> and proposing that we just reject any that look permanently stalled.
> It doesn't do much good to leave things in the list when there's
> no apparent interest in pushing them to conclusion. But I've not
> done the legwork yet, and I'm a little worried about the push-back
> that will inevitably result.
I was just going to say the same thing yesterday, and reference [1]
when I did it once in 2019. I think it was a useful cleanup exercise.
In hindsight, some of these patches were resubmitted later, and those
are either still ongoing or are already committed.
[1] https://postgr.es/m/20190930182818.GA25331@alvherre.pgsql
(I did have the luxury of a local copy of the commitfest database, which
is perhaps a service we could offer to CFMs to make their lives easier.)
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