Re: Multi-xacts and our process problem

On 2015-05-11 19:04:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think there's nobody, or at least very few people, who are getting
> paid to find/fix bugs rather than write cool new features. This is
> problematic. It doesn't help when key committers are overwhelmed by
> trying to process other peoples' patches. (And no, I'm not sure that
> "appoint more committers" would improve matters. What we've got is
> too many barely-good-enough patches. Tweaking the process to let those
> into the tree faster will not result in better quality.)

+many

Except perhaps that I'd expand "find/fix bugs" to include "review and
integrate patches". Because I think few people are paid to do that
either. I now partially am (which obviously isn't sufficient). There's
no way it's possible to e.g. work on integrating something like upsert
in a reasonable timeframe otherwise.

The lack of paid time to integrate stuff properly also leads to part of
the quality problem, besides delaying stuff.

Andres