On 2020-Jan-22, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 05:20:17PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> > Those are the patches that have been set as WoA before this CF, and have > > not been updated since. It's quite possible the state is stale for some > > of those patches, although I've tried to check if there were any > > messages on the list. > > You need to be careful about bug fixes, as these are things that we > don't want to lose track of. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the exception for bug fixes. I agree these should almost never be RwF (or in any way closed other than Committed, really, except in, err, exceptional cases). > Another thing that I noticed in the past > is that some patches are registered as bug fixes, but they actually > implement a new feature. So there can be tricky cases. Oh yeah, I think the CFM should exercise judgement and reclassify. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
