On 4/4/17 9:43 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:32 AM, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
>> My goal is to help people focus on patches that have a chance. At this
>> point I think that includes poking authors who are not being responsive
>> using the limited means at my disposal.
>
> +1. Pings on specific threads can help clear things up when, for
> example, the author and reviewer are each waiting for the other. And,
> as you say, they also help avoid the situation where a patch just
> falls off the radar and misses the release for no especially good
> reason, which naturally causes people frustration.
>
> I think your pings have been quite helpful, although I think it would
> have been better in some cases if you'd done them sooner. Pinging
> after a week, with a 3 day deadline, when there are only a few days
> left in the CommitFest isn't really leaving a lot of room to maneuver.
Thanks for the feedback! My thinking is that I don't want to bug people
too soon, but there's a maximum number of days a thread should be idle.
Over the course of the CF that has gone from 10 days, to 7, 5, and 3.
I don't look at all patches every day so it can be a bit uneven, i.e.,
all patches are allowed certain amount of idle time, but some may get a
bit more depending on when I check up on them.
Thanks,
--
-David
david@pgmasters.net
