Re: new commitfest transition guidance - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Maciek Sakrejda
Subject Re: new commitfest transition guidance
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Msg-id CADXhmgTwEazi_1OfguERAKv20vJfbBaO+z8BLsJ1JJOFnQH6XQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: new commitfest transition guidance  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I respectfully but firmly question your definition of "incredibly
> painful". What *I* think is incredibly painful is that I can spend an
> hour going through the CommitFest and not find a single patch that
> needs a review. And it's not just me. I have heard of multiple cases
> of people wanting to get involved in patch reviewing and being unable
> to find anything that seemed like a good candidate. We are literally
> driving people out of our development community by having a CF app
> that is totally unusable.

Big +1. I'm not sure if forcing patch submitters to click more will
fix this, but it's sad how one of the biggest bottlenecks in Postgres
seems to be lack of patch review while the patch review process is so
baroque and unwelcoming.



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