Message-ID: <F10BB1FAF801D111829B0060971D839F633CFE@cpsmail>
From: "Jackson, DeJuan" <djackson@cpsgroup.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: darcy@druid.net, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Patches
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:30:42 -0600
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So who's maintaining the website?
Drop me a line and let's have a chat about some improvements if you're
interested.
	-DEJ 

> -----Original Message-----
> > I don't think multiple queues per se are a problem; the 
> deficiency I see
> > in our patching procedures is lack of visibility of the status of a
> > proposed patch.  If it's not been applied, is it just because no one
> > has gotten to it yet, or was there an objection from 
> someone?  What's
> > worse is that one of the people with commit access might 
> miss or forget
> > about such an objection, and commit a bogus patch anyway 
> sometime later.
> > We have enough committers now that I think there's a 
> definite risk here.
> > 
> > If we wanted to be really organized about this, it'd be cool to have
> > a central database with an item for each proposed patch and links to
> > followup discussions.  But I'm not sure it's worth the work it would
> > take to set it up and then maintain the entries.  Unless we 
> get badly
> > bitten by a mistake that such a database would've 
> prevented, it probably
> > won't happen ...
> 
> I keep them in my mailbox, delete them if there is objection 
> or someone
> else applies it.  Eventually, I apply it.
> 
> -- 
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