Re: commit fests

Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Greg Smith wrote:
>
> > Developing new features is fun and tends to attract sponsorship
> > dollars. Testing a frozen release, finding bugs, and resolving them
> > is boring, and no one sponsors it. Therefore, if you let both
> > things go on at once, I guarantee you almost all of the community
> > attention will be diverted toward new development during any period
> > where both are happening at the same time.
>
> Frankly, part of the problem is that it's hard for many of us to see
> how to contribute effectively for most of these five months or so, in
> general. In particular, if someone *is* willing to pay you to work
> on developing a feature during these months, but not to work on any
> other PostgreSQL development, what do you recommend?

Yea, that is a problem. Years ago the commit process was all driven by
a few individuals, and our group has been successful at distributing
that workload, so my hope is that the stabilization phase will also lend
itself to distributing the workload someday too.

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