Re: Closing out CommitFest 2009-11 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers
From | Dave Page |
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Subject | Re: Closing out CommitFest 2009-11 |
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Msg-id | 937d27e10912190107v6690bc83w34f7ad49875160d2@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: Closing out CommitFest 2009-11 (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>) |
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Re: Closing out CommitFest 2009-11
(Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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List | pgsql-hackers |
Thanks Greg - nice job! :-) On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > CommitFest 2009-11 is now closed, having committed 27 patches in 33 days. > For comparison sake, 2009-09 committed 20 patches in 29 days, 2009-07 37 > patches in 34 days, and 2008-09 29 patches in 30 days. The much bigger > 2008-11 involved 58 patches going on for months, the bulk of it committed 28 > patches in 36 days. > > Seems pretty consistent at this point: at the average patch contribution > size seen over the last year, about one of those gets committed per day once > we enter a CommitFest. I didn't bother accounting for things that were > committed outside of the official dates, so it's actually a bit worse than > that, but that gives a rough idea that's easy to remember. > > Also, just based on the last three CFs, 42% of patches are either returned > with feedback or rejected (with quite a bit more CF to CF variation). The > working estimation figure I'd suggest is that once a CF reaches 50 incoming > patches it's unlikely that will finish in a month. > > CommitFest 2010-01, the last one for 8.5, begins on January 15th, 2010. > I'll be out of commission with projects by then, so unless Robert wants to > reprise his role as CF manager we may need to get someone else involved to > do it. Between the CF application and how proactive everyone involved is at > this point (almost all authors, reviewers, and committers do the bulk of the > state changes and link to messages in the archives for you), the job of > running things does keep getting easier. And the guidlines for how to be > the CF manager are pretty nailed down now--you could just execute on a > pretty mechanical plan and expect to make useful progress. It's still a lot > of time though. I've never had an appreciation for exactly how many > messages flow through this list like I do now, after a month of needing to > read and pay attention to every single one of them. > > For those of you still furiously working on a patch with that deadline, if > you have a large patch and it's not already been reviewed in a previous > CommitFest, I wouldn't give you good odds of it being even looked at during > that one. There doesn't seem to be any official warning of this where > people will likely notice it, but this topic has been discussed on the list > here. Large patches submitted just before the deadline for a release have > not fared very well historically. Recognizing that, there's really no > tolerance for chasing after them (at the expense of postponing the beta) > left for this release. Just figured I'd pass along that warning before > somebody discovers it the hard way, by working madly to finish their > submission up only to see it get kicked to the next version anyway. > > -- > Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant Baltimore, MD > PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support > greg@2ndQuadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.com > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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