From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200705021046.l42Akk127514@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Feature freeze progress report
In-Reply-To: <200705012151.51915.josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 06:46:45 -0400 (EDT)
CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce,
> 
> > As an example, how is patch information going to help us review HOT or
> > group-item-index?  There is frankly more information about these in the
> > archives than someone could reasonable read.  What someone needs is a
> > summary of where we are now on the patches, and lots of time.
> 
> The idea is to provide ways for other people to help where they can and to 
> provide better feedback to patch submitters so that they fix their own issues 
> faster.  Also, lesser PostgreSQL hackers than you could take on reviewing the 
> "small" patches, leaving you to devote all of your attention to the "big" 
> patches.
> 
> Actually, that can happen with the current system. The real blocker there is 
> that some people, particularly Tom, work so fast that there's no chance for a 
> new reviewer to tackle the easy stuff.  Maybe the real solution is to 
> encourage some of our other contributors to get their feet wet with easy 
> patches so that they can help with the big ones later on?
> 
> That is, if the problem is people and not tools, then what are we doing to 
> train up the people we need?

We seem to handle trivial patches just fine.  The current problem is
that the remaining patches require domain or subsystem-specific
knowledge to apply, e.g. XML or WAL, and those skills are available in a
limited number of people.  If I had the expertise in those areas, I
would have applied the patches already.

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