On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 03:18:11PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > * Another reason for things sitting a long time is that they're too > big to review without an unreasonable amount of effort. We should > encourage authors to break large patches into smaller stepwise > refinements. It may seem like that will result in taking forever > to reach the end goal, but dropping a huge patchset on the community > isn't going to give speedy results either.
I think it is sometimes hard to incrementally apply patches if the long-term goal isn't agreed or know to be achievable. > * Before starting this thread, Robert did a lot of very valuable > review of some individual patches. I think what prompted him to > start the thread was the realization that he'd only made a small > dent in the problem. Maybe we could divide and conquer: get a > dozen-or-so senior contributors to split up the list of pending > patches and then look at each one with an eye to what needs to > happen to move it along (*not* to commit it right away, although > in some cases maybe that's the thing to do). It'd be great if > that could happen just before each commitfest, but that's probably > not practical with the current patch volume. What I'm thinking > for the moment is to try to make that happen once a year or so. For me, if someone already knows what the blocker is, it saves me a lot of time if they can state that somewhere. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Only you can decide what is important to you.
