Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 20:20:52 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>,
	Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: commitfest.postgresql.org is no longer fit for purpose
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On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 03:18:11PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> * Another reason for things sitting a long time is that they're too
> big to review without an unreasonable amount of effort.  We should
> encourage authors to break large patches into smaller stepwise
> refinements.  It may seem like that will result in taking forever
> to reach the end goal, but dropping a huge patchset on the community
> isn't going to give speedy results either.

I think it is sometimes hard to incrementally apply patches if the
long-term goal isn't agreed or know to be achievable.

> * Before starting this thread, Robert did a lot of very valuable
> review of some individual patches.  I think what prompted him to
> start the thread was the realization that he'd only made a small
> dent in the problem.  Maybe we could divide and conquer: get a
> dozen-or-so senior contributors to split up the list of pending
> patches and then look at each one with an eye to what needs to
> happen to move it along (*not* to commit it right away, although
> in some cases maybe that's the thing to do).  It'd be great if
> that could happen just before each commitfest, but that's probably
> not practical with the current patch volume.  What I'm thinking
> for the moment is to try to make that happen once a year or so.

For me, if someone already knows what the blocker is, it saves me a lot
of time if they can state that somewhere.

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