Re: [9.4 CF 1] The Commitfest Slacker List

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [9.4 CF 1] The Commitfest Slacker List
Date: 2013-07-04 01:51:55
Message-ID: fbb2dbd2daa58fbb6090fda8d64f6ab4@biglumber.com
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Josh Berkus replied:
>> I won't go into details here because frankly why I have no time
>> for reviewing a patch is none of your business.
>
> Then just send an email saying "Sorry, I don't have any time for patch
> review this time. Maybe next time". It's pretty simple.

Hope about you not publically shame people in a volunteer project?
That's pretty simple.

> I'm not going to apologize for expecting *committers* to participate in
> patch review and commit.

I must have missed the page where patch review is defined as part of
a committer's job.

> Possibly "slacker" was a poor choice of word given translations; in
> colloquial American English it's a casual term, even affectionate under
> some conditions. I'll make sure to use different words if I ever end up
> doing a list again.

Please, don't ever do a list again. And yes, "slacker" was an extremely
poor choice of word. This American English speaker certainly has a
hard time viewing it as "affectionate". I think the whole thread would
have been better received with a subject line of "Commitfest needs help".

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