Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A888D2E00D9 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:53:59 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 99098-06 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:53:48 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.120]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA922E00DF for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:53:51 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.10.103] (really [65.190.223.24]) by cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20080307205349.KSZV28190.cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com@[192.168.10.103]>; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 20:53:49 +0000 Message-ID: <47D1AB5C.2050803@dunslane.net> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:53:48 -0500 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20071019 Fedora/1.0.9-3.fc6 pango-text SeaMonkey/1.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Chernow CC: Heikki Linnakangas , Alvaro Herrera , "Joshua D. Drake" , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Commitfest process References: <47D1521E.8090606@enterprisedb.com> <20080307101413.7d191e52@commandprompt.com> <47D18D80.2050107@enterprisedb.com> <20080307105047.2e34a156@commandprompt.com> <20080307194612.GB16862@alvh.no-ip.org> <47D19E18.4060303@enterprisedb.com> <47D1A109.20709@esilo.com> In-Reply-To: <47D1A109.20709@esilo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/206 X-Sequence-Number: 115007 Andrew Chernow wrote: > >> Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >> The main point of my proposal is: let's make the *authors* who want >> their stuff to be reviewed as part of a commitfest do the extra work. >> There would be no extra work required for patch reviewers. >> > > I think this makes the most sense. It distributes the work to authors > who know the most about the patch/feature and have probably followed > all discussions related to it. Updating a wiki or something similar > is a brainless activity. We are making much too big a deal of not very much here. AIUI a commitfest just involves a change in priority of tasks, mainly by committers, but also to some extent by other developers capable of doing reviews. As for making authors do extra work: good luck with that. In any case - ideally there shouldn't be any extra work. If someone wants to turn the patch list into something more reader-friendly, then that's a separate issue, really, quite apart from the commitfest. I rather liked the wiki page that Stefan Kaltenbrunner maintained for 8.4 features - it provided quite a good overview of where we were. cheers andrew