Re: Commit fest?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> writes:
> > Usefully organized
> > content doesn't magically create itself, it takes work.
>
> What he said.
>
> It's worth pointing out here that a whole lot of what is in Bruce's
> queue isn't patches or anything close to that, but discussions that he
> dropped into the queue until they could get summarized as TODO items.
> We've talked about moving the TODO list to the wiki as well. Something
> that would perhaps be useful to do in parallel with the patch-reviewing
> is to make that happen and start pushing the discussion threads out of
> the patch queue and onto the wiki page. Right now it's hard to even
> find the reviewable patches among the other stuff.

Yep, lots of TODOs but, again, we have to deal with these sometimes so
this is a good time to do it.

> I do have a bee in my bonnet about the TODO-to-be threads that revolve
> around mapping ideas (free space map, dead space map, known frozen
> pages, etc etc). I would like us to consider *all* those ideas as
> a group and try to come out with a coherent roadmap for where we are
> going to go with them. Perhaps that isn't an appropriate commit-fest
> activity, but it needs to happen sometime soon, before anyone starts
> spending serious work on these areas.

Yep, we need a plan on that thing. I can pull them out into a separate
URL when we are ready, and any comments will appear at the new URL. I
wish I could move things around myself but the list is dynamic so it
isn't possible.

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