Re: Closing commitfest 2013-11

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> With apologies to our beloved commitfest-mace-wielding CFM, commitfest
> 2013-11 intentionally still contains a few open patches. I think that
> CF is largely being ignored by most people now that we have CF 2014-01
> in progress. If we don't want to do anything about these patches in the
> immediate future, I propose we move them to CF 2014-01.

I think the idea was that patch authors should take responsibility for
pushing their patches forward to 2014-01 if they still wanted them
considered. Quite a few patches already were moved that way, IIRC.

Agreed though that we shouldn't let them just rot.

> * shared memory message queues

Isn't this committed? There's something by that name breaking the
buildfarm ;-)

> * Shave a few instructions from child-process startup sequence
> Discussion stalled without a conclusion; opinions diverge on whether
> this is a useful patch to have. My personal inclination is to drop
> this patch because it seems pointless, but if someone feels otherwise
> I won't object.

I was one of the people objecting to it, so +1 for dropping.

> * Widening application of indices.
> Was this re-posted in 2014-01?

Yes, there's a newer version already in 2014-01.

regards, tom lane