Re: Non-committer reviews: is it helpful?

HI Alexander
Welcome， Would you be interested in reviewing this path? （
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/6188/）

Thanks

On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 8:18 AM Alexander Borisov <lex(dot)borisov(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> 30.01.2026 02:44, Tom Lane пишет:
> > Alexander Borisov <lex(dot)borisov(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> I have a question for the community. While waiting for feedback on my
> >> own patches, I was wondering: is there value in me reviewing other
> >> people's patches, even though I am not a committer here?
> >
> > Yes, absolutely. Even if you don't catch every problem that a
> > person with committer-level experience might catch, every problem
> > you do catch is one less thing for the eventual committer to deal
> > with.
> >
> > Another reason why we encourage people of all experience levels
> > to do code reviews is that that is amazingly useful for gaining
> > familiarity with the Postgres code base, which is important for
> > becoming a more senior-level contributor. Committers don't appear
> > out of nowhere; they gained the necessary knowledge by working on
> > patches, both their own and others'.
> >
> >> I’ve been around here for over a year, and sometimes it feels like the
> >> project lacks a dedicated coordinator to direct contributor and reviewer
> >> efforts. Because of this, I'm not always sure which patches deserve
> >> attention first.
> >
> > You presume a degree of top-down organization that doesn't exist
> > around here. People work on whatever catches their fancy (or,
> > perhaps, what their company wants them to work on ... but that is no
> > business of the community at large). That applies to reviews just as
> > much as to writing the patches in the first place. So review what you
> > find interesting or what you think you can say something useful about.
>
>
> Thank you for your reply, it makes the community's approach clearer.
> Therefore, I can confidently review patches in the mailing list and
> offer my own options/edits.
> With confidence that this is really useful for the community, and the
> committers.
>
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> Regards,
> Alexander Borisov
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