From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200609020211.k822BGF12279@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta
In-Reply-To: <200609020407.16121.peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 22:11:16 -0400 (EDT)
CC: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
	Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, josh@agliodbs.com
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> What the current system lacks is documentation, which makes the process 
> behind those lists known to others, and the ability to interact with 
> the system.  If I can't see any feedback in the system for the actions 
> I do, then the system is not very useful to me.

What do you want to happen?  Just apply the patch?  You want to log into
a system to say you applied it?  If people are not doing applications
when they have no overhead, I doubt they will do it when there are
additional steps.

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