| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Emmanuel Cecchet <manu(at)frogthinker(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Well done, Hackers |
| Date: | 2008-11-01 23:07:14 |
| Message-ID: | 200811012307.mA1N7Ei27487@momjian.us |
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Emmanuel Cecchet wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > "Well done"? It seems to me that we are right where we hoped not to be,
> > ie with a ton of barely-completed (if not self-admitted WIP) patches
> > dropped on us immediately before feature freeze. Today the commit fest
> > idea is looking like a failure.
> >
> If you don't want patches coming at given deadlines then yes the commit
> fest idea is a bad idea altogether. But what is the real issue?
> - The core team is too small to absorb contributions or the development
> is not distributed enough?
The list of people experienced enough to review complex patches has not
grown as fast as the number of people submitting complex patches. That
will probably even out over time, but it might take years.
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