From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200803242141.m2OLfiZ22484@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] New email list for emergency
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To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:41:44 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>,
	Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > This is an interesting observation that deserves to be discussed
> > separately, and relates to the patch queue.  Many people want to know
> > what is happening with the patch queue but having better reporting
> > doesn't seem to help much the people who are actually processing the
> > queue, and requires more work.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow.  I tried last week to give some hours for patch
> review.  What actually happened was that I had to wade through a ton of
> stuff, skipping patches that were already applied, threads that were
> purely discussion but not patches, threads about earlier versions of
> some patches.

Yep, that describes the painful process well.

I have tried to stay on top of patches already applied but I am doing a
clock sweep over the queue and you probably caught a spot I was nearing.

The rest is clearly hard to digest.  Ideally I could group all related
patches together, and separate the pure TODO items from the patches that
might be TODO items or might be applied.  (Though I do need comments on
the pure TODO items too.)

The problem is that I know of no easy way to do that and the time to
doing it is better spent actually processing/deleting items.

> I did manage to find actual patches, but I had then to resort to my own
> mailbox to get the actual patch to apply and review.

You can download an mbox of the entire queue if that helps.

> Now I can't be sure whether the current commitfest is finished or there
> are still patches pending review; what patches could use input from me;
> what patches I could bounce to the next commitfest.
> 
> Also I don't know what patches we have for the next commitfest.  I would
> gladly give some time to put up a Wiki page to list the patches for the
> next commitfest.  Would that be helpful?

Uh, I don't think we have any patches for the next commit fest yet.

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