Re: 2021-09 Commitfest

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 2021-09 Commitfest
Date: 2021-10-02 15:20:09
Message-ID: 202110021520.qza6ifgbguyd@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Oct-02, Tom Lane wrote:

> Yeah. I have been thinking of looking through the oldest CF entries
> and proposing that we just reject any that look permanently stalled.
> It doesn't do much good to leave things in the list when there's
> no apparent interest in pushing them to conclusion. But I've not
> done the legwork yet, and I'm a little worried about the push-back
> that will inevitably result.

I was just going to say the same thing yesterday, and reference [1]
when I did it once in 2019. I think it was a useful cleanup exercise.
In hindsight, some of these patches were resubmitted later, and those
are either still ongoing or are already committed.
[1] https://postgr.es/m/20190930182818.GA25331@alvherre.pgsql

(I did have the luxury of a local copy of the commitfest database, which
is perhaps a service we could offer to CFMs to make their lives easier.)

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