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. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + - Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
