Re: We're getting close to the end of 2020-01 CF

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: We're getting close to the end of 2020-01 CF
Date: 2020-01-22 13:19:51
Message-ID: 20200122131951.GA9025@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2020-Jan-22, Michael Paquier wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 05:20:17PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:

> > Those are the patches that have been set as WoA before this CF, and have
> > not been updated since. It's quite possible the state is stale for some
> > of those patches, although I've tried to check if there were any
> > messages on the list.
>
> You need to be careful about bug fixes, as these are things that we
> don't want to lose track of.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the exception for bug fixes. I agree these
should almost never be RwF (or in any way closed other than Committed,
really, except in, err, exceptional cases).

> Another thing that I noticed in the past
> is that some patches are registered as bug fixes, but they actually
> implement a new feature. So there can be tricky cases.

Oh yeah, I think the CFM should exercise judgement and reclassify.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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