Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:52:09 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
	Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, josh@agliodbs.com
Subject: Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > It pulls my a mailbox file I use, and it does instant updates as soon
> > > as I change it.  It is a URL.  Why do people care where it is?
> > 
> > The complaint has been that not enough people help with reviewing 
> > patches.  That would indicate that the problem is not location but 
> > scalability.  If everything has to go through your private mailbox, 
> > then it's not a very obvious process to outsiders.
> 
> Well, you can grab items from there and apply them.  I will remove them
> from the mailbox when I see the commit.   You have another system that
> will not be significantly more work?  Any you can apply them right from
> the email lists so they never get to the queue.

Another novel idea: have a "bugtracker" of sorts where selected people
can add "feature requests" and append patches to them.  There, people
could add "fake" feature requests describing the stuff they are working
on, and publish the patches they have for them.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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