On 12/10/2014 10:35 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have heard repeated concerns about the commitfest process in the past
> few months. The fact we have been in a continual commitfest since
> August also is concerning.
>
> I think we are reaching the limits on how much we can do with our
> existing commitfest structure, and it might be time to consider changes.
> While the commitfest process hasn't changed much and was very successful
> in the first few years, a few things have changed externally:
>
> 1 more new developers involved in contributing small patches
> 2 more full-time developers creating big patches
> 3 increased time demands on experienced Postgres developers
I will add:
4. commitfest managers have burned out and refuse to do it again
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Josh Berkus
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