Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-05 Thread Robert Haas
People aren't willing to hel pme in even a simple task of maintaining an 8.3 patches status page, so why would they want to help with something larger. I am not going to make my job harder only to find out no one wants to help. I thought about volunteering to do this, but: 1. I am a little

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 01:19, Tom Lane wrote: Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Treat
I think this is the apprach joshua tried the first time and it backfired... I think we need a more personal approach. I'm willing to put time into this if people want a new point man (I don't think Joshua will mind, lmk if you do) but it will have to wait untill after pgcon. On Thursday 03

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Csaba Nagy wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:51, Bruce Momjian wrote: I believe the problem is not that there isn't enough information, but not enough people able to do the work. Seeking solutions in areas that aren't helping was the illustration. Yes Bruce, but you're failing to see that

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, Get rid of gborg and let's talk. Touche'. Actually, AFAICT, the only active thing left on GBorg is WWW. If we move that, we can shut it down. Any objections? Why am I having to spend hours in Syndey saying the same thing? ?Why don't you guys go ahead

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You keep saying that but I think it's wrong. There are trivial patches that were submitted last year that are still sitting in the queue. Um ... which ones exactly? I don't see *anything* in the current queue that

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, all, No, my point is that 100% information is already available by looking at email archives. What we need is a short description of where we are on each patch --- that is a manual process, not something that can be automated. Tom has posted it --- tell me

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Csaba Nagy
We have _ample_ evidence that the problem is lack of people able to review patches, and yet there is this discussion to track patches better. It reminds me of someone who has lost their keys in an alley, but is looking for them in the street because the light is better there. Bruce, I guess

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
Csaba Nagy wrote: We have _ample_ evidence that the problem is lack of people able to review patches, and yet there is this discussion to track patches better. It reminds me of someone who has lost their keys in an alley, but is looking for them in the street because the light is better

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:51, Bruce Momjian wrote: I believe the problem is not that there isn't enough information, but not enough people able to do the work. Seeking solutions in areas that aren't helping was the illustration. Yes Bruce, but you're failing to see that a more structured

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Dave Page
Bruce Momjian wrote: Csaba Nagy wrote: We have _ample_ evidence that the problem is lack of people able to review patches, and yet there is this discussion to track patches better. It reminds me of someone who has lost their keys in an alley, but is looking for them in the street because the

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruce Momjian wrote: Csaba Nagy wrote: We have _ample_ evidence that the problem is lack of people able to review patches, and yet there is this discussion to track patches better. It reminds me of someone who has lost their keys in an alley, but is looking for them in the street because

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: Csaba Nagy wrote: We have _ample_ evidence that the problem is lack of people able to review patches, and yet there is this discussion to track patches better. It reminds me of someone who has lost their keys in an alley, but is looking for them in the street because the

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Josh Berkus
Bruce, Get rid of gborg and let's talk. Touche'. Actually, AFAICT, the only active thing left on GBorg is WWW. If we move that, we can shut it down. Any objections? Why am I having to spend hours in Syndey saying the same thing?  Why don't you guys go ahead and change things, and when

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, Get rid of gborg and let's talk. Touche'. Actually, AFAICT, the only active thing left on GBorg is WWW. If we move that, we can shut it down. Any objections? This should be a different thread *but* to my knowledge there is more than WWW active on Gborg. Or at

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why not just send a notice out stated that Gborg will be shutdown as of June 1st ... give a finite deadline to move things over to pgfoundry ... just because we 'shut down' the site on June 1st, it doesn't mean we are going to wipe it all out, we

Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-03 Thread Chris Ryan
I was just getting ready to suggest such an approach. We could email all the project admins for the reamaining projects with the dead-line. Backup the information and tell people who to contact in order to claim whatever information they want. Once the dead-line is past you can simply

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:09:24PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: The current patch-queue process is failing to scale with the project: every release it gets to be more work for you Tom to integrate the patches. We need to think of new approaches to make the review process scale. As a

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Tom Lane wrote: Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Magnus Hagander wrote: 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

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
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

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Gregory Stark
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We seem to handle trivial patches just fine. You keep saying that but I think it's wrong. There are trivial patches that were submitted last year that are still sitting in the queue. In fact I claim we handle complex patches better than trivial ones.

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Gregory Stark wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We seem to handle trivial patches just fine. You keep saying that but I think it's wrong. There are trivial patches that were submitted last year that are still sitting in the queue. You seem to be looking at something

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Naz Gassiep wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Naz Gassiep wrote: I believe the suggestion was to have an automated process that only ran on known, sane patches. How do we know in advance of reviewing them that they are sane? Same way as happens now. The question was

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: So in a roundabout way we come back to the idea that we need a bug tracker (NOT a patch tracker), plus people putting in the effort to make sure it stays a valid source of up-to-date info. Without the latter it won't really be useful. Hallelujah Brother! BTW, a bug

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Tom Lane wrote: So in a roundabout way we come back to the idea that we need a bug tracker (NOT a patch tracker), plus people putting in the effort to make sure it stays a valid source of up-to-date info. Without the latter it won't really be useful. Hallelujah

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Dunstan) writes: Tom Lane wrote: So in a roundabout way we come back to the idea that we need a bug tracker (NOT a patch tracker), plus people putting in the effort to make sure it stays a valid source of up-to-date info. Without the latter it won't really be

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Marc Munro
On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 08:27 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Naz Gassiep wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Naz Gassiep wrote: I believe the suggestion was to have an automated process that only ran on known, sane patches. How do we know in advance of reviewing them that

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 06:44:12AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Magnus Hagander wrote: 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

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Josh Berkus
Bruce, all, No, my point is that 100% information is already available by looking at email archives. What we need is a short description of where we are on each patch --- that is a manual process, not something that can be automated. Tom has posted it --- tell me how we will get such a

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, all, No, my point is that 100% information is already available by looking at email archives. What we need is a short description of where we are on each patch --- that is a manual process, not something that can be automated. Tom has posted it --- tell me how we

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marc Munro wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 08:27 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Naz Gassiep wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Naz Gassiep wrote: I believe the suggestion was to have an automated process that only ran on known, sane patches. How do we know in advance of reviewing them

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Lane
Marc Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 08:27 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: The question was rhetorical ... there is no list of certified sane but unapplied patches. You are proceeding on the basis of a faulty understanding of how our processes work. Why do we need to know

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Dave Page
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Well according to himself the last time this came up: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg01253.php No, he isn't. The last paragraph of http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-04/msg01258.php is somewhat more positive regarding a patch

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Chris Browne wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Dunstan) writes: Tom Lane wrote: So in a roundabout way we come back to the idea that we need a bug tracker (NOT a patch tracker), plus people putting in the effort to make sure it stays a valid source of up-to-date info. Without the latter it

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You keep saying that but I think it's wrong. There are trivial patches that were submitted last year that are still sitting in the queue. Um ... which ones exactly? I don't see *anything* in the current queue that is utterly without issues, other than

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Dave Page
Bruce Momjian wrote: Sounds interesting, but I am not sure how that is going to track multiple versions of the patch, They could easily be submitted through the web interface as revisions to the original version. or changes in the email subject. We'd need to keep the reference number in

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dave Page wrote: The bottom line is that there is a lot of thinking that the patch queue is so large because no one knows what to do. Oh, if we were better communicators, more would be done. The patch queue is large because we have lots of March 31 patches, and because we don't have

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Naz Gassiep wrote: I believe the suggestion was to have an automated process that only ran on known, sane patches. How do we know in advance of reviewing them that they are sane? What is more, we often run into situations where patch a will require changes in patch b, so testing them

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Marc Munro
On Tue, 2007-01-05 at 02:54 +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: Naz Gassiep [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Even if the patch inventory wasn't kept right up to date, this system could potentially help many regression issues or bugs to surface sooner, I just don't understand what this would accomplish.

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Dave Page
Bruce Momjian wrote: The bottom line is if you had a system that was 100% perfect in capturing all information about a patch, it only helps us 2% toward reviewing the patch, and what is the cost of keeping 100% information? 2% for you or Tom reviewing a recently discussed, run-of-the mill

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Josh Berkus
Bruce, The bottom line is if you had a system that was 100% perfect in capturing all information about a patch, it only helps us 2% toward reviewing the patch, and what is the cost of keeping 100% information? 2% for you or Tom reviewing a recently discussed, run-of-the mill patch. I

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Jim Nasby
Two more ideas for the manager, now that we seem to have consensus to build one. On Apr 30, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: -- We could save the patches by applied date and index them, and then have a place to point users when they ask: When was X fixed? Do I *have* to upgrade to 8.1

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Dave Page
Josh, Josh Berkus wrote: Is there a reason why the system needs to be primarily based on e-mail? I was thinking that the patch manager would be entirely a web tool, with people submitting and modifying a patch directly through a web interface. This would be lots easier to build than an

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Josh Berkus
Dave, The reason for basing the system on email is simply that it minimises the changes required in the community process. If it were entirely web based, we'd have to change the way we all work to discuss patches in a forum style, rather than a list style. I have a sneaking suspicion that at

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 09:43 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: The current patch-queue process is failing to scale with the project: every release it gets to be more work for you Tom to integrate the patches. We need to think of new approaches to make the review process scale. As a pointed

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Josh Berkus wrote: If many people are going to block on using a web tool for submitting new versions of a patch, claiming responsibility for review, etc., though, then we should probably abandon this discussion right here. No new tool is going to work if we have people who won't make any

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Magnus Hagander
Josh Berkus wrote: Dave, The reason for basing the system on email is simply that it minimises the changes required in the community process. If it were entirely web based, we'd have to change the way we all work to discuss patches in a forum style, rather than a list style. I have a

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Josh Berkus
Andrew, So if the commercial backers of PostgreSQL want better management of the project, maybe they need to find some resources to help out. I don't think they really care, or we'd have heard something by now. I think this is up to us PG developers. -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Josh Berkus wrote: Andrew, So if the commercial backers of PostgreSQL want better management of the project, maybe they need to find some resources to help out. I don't think they really care, or we'd have heard something by now. I think this is up to us PG developers.

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Dave Page
--- Original Message --- From: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01/05/07, 21:10:07 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report So if the commercial backers of PostgreSQL want better management of the project, maybe they need

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: Andrew, So if the commercial backers of PostgreSQL want better management of the project, maybe they need to find some resources to help out. I don't think they really care, or we'd have heard something by now. I think

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Arturo Perez
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Nasby) wrote: Two more ideas for the manager, now that we seem to have consensus to build one. One other thing a webapp would allow that would help grow the community. If the patches are all in a public place then reviewer wannabees

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Naz Gassiep
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Naz Gassiep wrote: I believe the suggestion was to have an automated process that only ran on known, sane patches. How do we know in advance of reviewing them that they are sane? Same way as happens now. I would assume this mechanism would only be applied to patches that

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Josh Berkus
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

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Tom Lane
Naz Gassiep [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Dunstan wrote: How do we know in advance of reviewing them that they are sane? Same way as happens now. I would assume this mechanism would only be applied to patches that had already been approved to contrib, or some other measure that can be

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-05-01 Thread Naz Gassiep
What is approved to contrib? The problem here is that having reasonable certainty that a patch is not malicious requires having gone over it in some detail; at which point you might as well apply the thing. Or if you didn't apply it, you bounced it for reasons that are unlikely to have

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Dave Page wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: This means that there is a huge rush of new code in pgAdmin's development cycle, right at the time when we should be testing - making the release process more and more rushed as each release of PostgreSQL gets more efficient and adds more and more

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Dave Page
Tom Lane wrote: Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like the idea of having a sync point mid cycle, however, what I'd like to see even more is an improved system in which we put less pressure on the few committers we have, and give them more freedom to commit patches they may not

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Dave Page
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Interesting ... so if you have a new feature (or a number of them) - that is not directly depending on some sort of new backend feature - in pgadmin you delay it until the next postgresql mjor release ? It's not so much that we delay the new features, it's just that

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:01:04AM +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Dave Page wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: This means that there is a huge rush of new code in pgAdmin's development cycle, right at the time when we should be testing - making the release process more and more rushed

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Dave Page wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Interesting ... so if you have a new feature (or a number of them) - that is not directly depending on some sort of new backend feature - in pgadmin you delay it until the next postgresql mjor release ? It's not so much that we delay the new

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Dave Page
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: No, but it's exactly the reason why we release with/just before PostgreSQL. If we were offset by six months, we might find ourselves having to do compatibility releases mid-cycle for the latest PostgreSQL release. A change in pg_database such as we had previously

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Tom Lane wrote: [ thinks for a bit... ] What we need to expand is not so much the pool of committers as the pool of reviewers. If a patch had been signed off on by X number of reasonably-qualified people then it'd be fair to consider that it could be committed. The tracking system you suggest

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 23:13 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Our community could probably handle a few of these complex patches, but the volume for this release is significantly higher than previous releases. The community is doing a good job

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: My thinking is to move to a two stage release process: Do one production release annually, and one dev release at the 6 month mid-point. That way each new release contains a manageable number of new features and we have a realistic chance of

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: I would also suggest that 8.3 be labelled a dev release. We have a reasonable number of fairly invasive patches, so we need a mechanism to integrate them with reduced risk. I would rather like to see patches we

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Gregory Stark wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The postponed patches can be reviewed and committed early in 8.4, instead of at the last minute in 8.3. Given that some of those patches have been in the queue since last September is there any reason to think they'll get

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Yeah; the agreement we had was that 8.3 would be a short release. So if we're going to take too long to review and apply the outstanding patches we have, we should rather push them to 8.4, get 8.3 released quickly and then go on with the

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dave Page wrote: 2) Introduce a new patch management system. I suggest a web interface through which patches be submitted. This would assign them an ID number, and forward them to the patches list. The system would track any responses to the initial email, logging the thread automatically

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dave Page wrote: I'm not specifically talking about complex patches (nor am I talking at all about bug tracking) - there are a variety of patches in the queue, of varying complexity. Some have been there for months, and worse, some of them recieved little or no feedback when submitted leaving

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: I don't think we need a sync point. I think we need to get better at setting expectations and at managing the patch queue so that it gets drained better all the time. Nothing can be more frustrating for patch authors than to have patches in the queue for a very long

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like the idea of having a sync point mid cycle, however, what I'd like to see even more is an improved system in which we put less pressure on the few committers we have, and give them more freedom to commit patches they may not

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Every patch in the queue is ready for review. If we have bounced something back for the author to fix, it gets removed from the queue. As far as adding comments, again, this wasn't meant to be a community resource, just my tracking system, and I have given feedback on the status to any

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marc G. Fournier wrote patches held over from feature freeze from the previous release will be reviewed within two months of the tree re-opening a. why 2 months? shouldn't they be given priority, period? Yes, but they don't always seem to get it. b. what happens after 2

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Dave Page
Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like the idea of having a sync point mid cycle, however, what I'd like to see even more is an improved system in which we put less pressure on the few committers we have, and give them more freedom to commit patches

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Dave Page
Bruce Momjian wrote: Dave Page wrote: 2) Introduce a new patch management system. I suggest a web interface through which patches be submitted. This would assign them an ID number, and forward them to the patches list. The system would track any responses to the initial email, logging the

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Dave Page wrote: In my original message I described my thinking: - Developer submits patch, with additional info through a web interface. - The web interface formats an email containing the patch description, patch and any other info entered, assigns it a patch number, and forwards it to the

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Dave Page wrote: Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: This means that there is a huge rush of new code in pgAdmin's development cycle, right at the time when we should be testing - making the release process more and more rushed as each release of PostgreSQL gets more efficient and adds more and more

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:27:10AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Dave Page wrote: I'm not specifically talking about complex patches (nor am I talking at all about bug tracking) - there are a variety of patches in the queue, of varying complexity. Some have been there for months, and worse,

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Josh Berkus
Heikki, We're having a short 8.3 cycle because we wanted to shift our release schedule from Autumn to Spring. That would get us back to releasing in Autumn. Er, no. We wanted to change the cycle to avoid having Feature Freeze occur at midsummer (N. hemisphere) when many of our committers

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Marc Munro
On Mon, 2007-30-04 at 08:56 -0300, Heikki Linnakangaspgsql wrote: Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:18:36 +0100 From: Heikki Linnakangas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marc Munro wrote: On Mon, 2007-30-04 at 08:56 -0300, Heikki Linnakangaspgsql wrote: Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:18:36 +0100 From: Heikki Linnakangas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce Momjian [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Munro) writes: On Mon, 2007-30-04 at 08:56 -0300, Heikki Linnakangaspgsql wrote: Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:18:36 +0100 From: Heikki Linnakangas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dave Page wrote: In my original message I described my thinking: - Developer submits patch, with additional info through a web interface. - The web interface formats an email containing the patch description, patch and any other info entered, assigns it a patch number, and forwards it to

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Naz Gassiep
I believe the suggestion was to have an automated process that only ran on known, sane patches. I don't think he was suggesting a mechanism for the great unwashed masses to dump arbitrary code into and have it applied in the buildfarm. You'd have an inventory of patches (you could use a hash to

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-30 Thread Gregory Stark
Naz Gassiep [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Even if the patch inventory wasn't kept right up to date, this system could potentially help many regression issues or bugs to surface sooner, I just don't understand what this would accomplish. People run regressions before submitting anyways. They can't

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 23:13 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Our community could probably handle a few of these complex patches, but the volume for this release is significantly higher than previous releases. The community is doing a good job of giving patch writers feedback and new patch

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 23:13 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Our community could probably handle a few of these complex patches, but the volume for this release is significantly higher than previous releases. The community is doing a good job of giving patch writers feedback

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 4/28/07, Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the community has to come up with ideas on how to accomplish this. My thinking is to move to a two stage release process: Do one production release annually, and one dev release at the 6 month mid-point. That way each new release contains

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Simon Riggs wrote: My thinking is to move to a two stage release process: Do one production release annually, and one dev release at the 6 month mid-point. That way each new release contains a manageable number of new features and we have a realistic chance of integrating them successfully.

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: I would also suggest that 8.3 be labelled a dev release. We have a reasonable number of fairly invasive patches, so we need a mechanism to integrate them with reduced risk. I would rather like to see patches we don't are confident enough in

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Gregory Stark
Heikki Linnakangas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like the idea of draining the patch queue mid-way through the release cycle. That'll hopefully encourage people to submit patches earlier in the release cycle, knowing they will be reviewed. It'll also give people working on external projects,

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Gregory Stark
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The postponed patches can be reviewed and committed early in 8.4, instead of at the last minute in 8.3. Given that some of those patches have been in the queue since last September is there any reason to think they'll get reviewed early in this cycle

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Yeah; the agreement we had was that 8.3 would be a short release. So if we're going to take too long to review and apply the outstanding patches we have, we should rather push them to 8.4, get 8.3 released quickly and then go on with the regular annual release. The

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Tom Lane
Stefan Kaltenbrunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Riggs wrote: My thinking is to move to a two stage release process: Do one production release annually, and one dev release at the 6 month mid-point. I'm not really convinced that this is good idea at all - it would lead to further

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Tom Lane
Lukas Kahwe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, I do not have an overview on this, but like Alvaro mentions, the shorter release cycles for 8.3 was done because we felt that a number of patches that were originally slated for 8.2 were almost but not quite ready for 8.2. So are all of those

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Dave Page
Heikki Linnakangas wrote: I like the idea of draining the patch queue mid-way through the release cycle. That'll hopefully encourage people to submit patches earlier in the release cycle, knowing they will be reviewed. It'll also give people working on external projects, drivers and tools, a

Re: [HACKERS] Feature freeze progress report

2007-04-29 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Dave Page wrote: Heikki Linnakangas wrote: I like the idea of draining the patch queue mid-way through the release cycle. That'll hopefully encourage people to submit patches earlier in the release cycle, knowing they will be reviewed. It'll also give people working on external projects,

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