Re: Commitfest 2025-03 still has active patches

On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 at 22:28, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de> wrote:
>
> On 2025-Jul-24, Laurenz Albe wrote:
>
> > I just happened to look into https://commitfest.postgresql.org/52/
> > and saw plenty of "Active patches" there.
> >
> > I guess that's a consequence of the new rule established in [1].
>
> I don't know about the rest of it, but I moved all the entries in the
> "Bug Fixes" category to the PG19-2 commitfest.
>
> As for the others:
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> > Are they supposed to stay like that? Should they be closed?
> > If yes, "Returned with Feedback"? Or some new state "Abandoned"?
>
> > [1]: https://postgr.es/m/003e3a66-8fcc-4ca0-9e0e-c0afda1c9424%40eisentraut.org
>
> I *think* we should close the Waiting-on-author ones as Returned with
> Feedback, and ping the authors of the rest so that each author moves
> their patches forward, with a reasonable deadline (two weeks?); we close
> patches that aren't moved by then.
>
> Right now we have:
>
> Waiting on author: 14 patches
> Needs review: 13 patches
> Ready for committer: 4 patches

Some patches marked as "Waiting on Author" were not updated to "Needs
Review" after they posted a new version, so I haven't returned all of
them. For the ones that are still open, I’ve sent a private email to
the respective authors. Let’s wait a bit and see if they show
interest.

Regards,
Vignesh