Re: next CommitFest

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Selena Deckelmann wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I was just poking around on the Wiki, and it looks like the role of the
>> CommitFest manager isn't very well documented yet.
>>
>>
>> It's pretty straightforward. Robert has actually done a great job of
>> communicating about this to the patch reviewers.
>>
>>
>> That's good to hear.  What I was hinting at was that some of the community
>> knowledge here should start getting written down now that the process has
>> matured, rather than trying to directly transfer just to one other person.
>> I'm not sure if Robert has shared 100% of what he does with the reviewers or
>> not, but in general the easiest way to divest yourself of a position is to
>> document how someone else can do it.  I don't know that having to poke
>> through list archives or chat with someone is necessarily the best way to
>> transfer that knowledge.
>
> I'll try to write something up.  Stand by.

Here's an attempt.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Running_a_CommitFest

...Robert