Re: Patch queue concern

at seems like a bit of a whacky criterion to use before reviewing a patch.
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> "wacky"?
>
>> It favours people who are short-sighted and don't see what possible
>> improvements their code has. No code in an ongoing project like this is ever
>> "completed" anyways.
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> It favors those who do not wait until the last minute, but complete them
> well before the freeze date.

But wouldn't it hurt those that are continuously working the patch with
the community? Just asking.

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>> It's also an artifact of the working model we have where patches are sent in
>> big chunks and reviewed much later during a feature freeze. If we were
>> committing directly into a CVS repository we would have wanted to commit these
>> changes as soon as they were ready for committing, not wait until they're
>> "completed". Then continue working and commit further changes. It's only
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> This would have CVS containing uncomplete features --- and before beta,
> we would either have to beg the authors to complete them, or rip them
> out, neither of which we want to do.

I agree here.

>> I think you should be asking people whether they think the code is in a state
>> where it can be committed, not whether they've finished working on it. Just
>> because they see further work that can be done is no reason not to commit
>> useful patches that are functional as they are.
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> OK, but we don't want something that is ready to be committed, we need
> it complete.

Right, feature complete does not mean bug free that is what the testing
period is for.

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>> In fact Postgres historically has had an even looser standard. If the code is
>> ready to be committed modulo bugs then it's been included in the feature
>> freeze in the past.
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> Well, if we know something has bugs, we fix them. Things are committed
> with bugs only because we don't know it has bugs when it was committed.

Yep :)

Joshua D. Drake

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