From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200609012223.k81MNUT01820@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta
In-Reply-To: <17881.1157138424@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:23:30 -0400 (EDT)
CC: josh@agliodbs.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > Can you be a little clearer on which things are non-working patches, and 
> > which things are pending due to lack of review?
> 
> The only things I currently want to reject as not having provided a
> timely patch are bitmap indexes and updatable views.  The other stuff
> I mentioned is in need of review, but I don't currently have a reason
> to think it can't get in.
> 
> > I'm all for bouncing 
> > stuff that's not ready to go, but bouncing stuff because we haven't 
> > recruited enough code reviewers is just bad practice.
> 
> Well, it's taken us the full month to get this far through the queue, so
> I'd sure like to have more people on board reviewing next time.  Alvaro
> helped but I miss Neil Conway, and some other people have helped in the
> past.  However --- the present situation has nothing to do with lack of
> reviewers, it's lack of time to finish the patches.

I did try to get us additional help in reviewing.  Neil was unavailable,
and Alvaro could only give part of his time.

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