2009/12/7 Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>:
>
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>> It was written and submitted by one person who did not bother to ask
>> first whether anyone else thought it was worthwhile. So its presence
>> on the CF list should not be taken as evidence that there's consensus
>> for it.
>
> Should we have "Needs Discussion" phase before "Needs Review" ?
> Reviews, including me, think patches with needs-review status are
> worthwhile. In contrast, contributers often register their patches
> to CF without discussions just because of no response; they cannot
> find whether no response is silent approval or not.
+1. Sometimes a reviewer waits for the consensus in the community when
someone else waits for review (, because it is marked as "Needs
Review").
Regards,
--
Hitoshi Harada
