Re: Assisting developers

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > One failing that has appeared during the 7.5 development cycle is that
> > we as a community haven't been able to provide timely feedback to
> > developers working on large feature additions.
> >
> > I am particularly thinking of Alvaro (nested transactions) and Simon
> > (PITR), where we haven't been able to give them sufficient feedback to
> > make them fully productive.
> >
> > I am not sure what can be done to solve this in the future. There are
> > only a limited number of us who have the experience and time to review
> > and comment on very complex patches.
> >
> > Hopefully this is just growing pains and the community will grow to the
> > point where we can have more people focused on assisting developers
> > adding complex features.
>
> Well, I note (and I'm not being unkind or anything here) that a lot of
> the high level committers we have haven't been so active this release.
> Peter and Joe haven't been around much and Jan has been busy with Slony.
> We also lost Thomas Lockhart. Neil's also away on holidays. You and
> Tom have basically been doing all the reviewing - a great job - but I
> can't believe Tom hasn't cracked yet :P

Excellent analysis.

> I've been around for years, but I've never really gotten into the depths
> of things, so I'm not much use for checking complex patches, but I'm
> willing to review simpler stuff :)
>
> Maybe you should promote a new committer? (Not me!)

The committing isn't really the issue. It is reviewing and giving
feedback to developers of complex features.

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