Re: [9.4 CF 1] The Commitfest Slacker List

From: Cédric Villemain <cedric(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Mailing Lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [9.4 CF 1] The Commitfest Slacker List
Date: 2013-07-03 19:39:37
Message-ID: 201307032139.42007.cedric@2ndquadrant.com
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Le mercredi 3 juillet 2013 21:03:42, Christopher Browne a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Cédric Villemain
<cedric(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>wrote:
> > > Clearly I ticked off a bunch of people by publishing "the list". On
> > > the other hand, in the 5 days succeeding the post, more than a dozen
> > > additional people signed up to review patches, and we got some of the
> > > "ready for committer" patches cleared out -- something which nothing
> > > else I did, including dozens of private emails, general pleas to this
> > > mailing list, mails to the RRReviewers list, served to accomplish, in
> > > this or previous CFs.
> >
> > Others rules appeared, like the 5 days limit.
> > To me it outlines that some are abusing the CF app and pushing there
> > useless
> > patches (not still ready or complete, WIP, ...
>
> Seems to me that "useless" overstates things, but it does seem fair to
> say that some patches are not sufficiently well prepared to be efficiently
> added into Postgres.

Oops! You just made me realized my choice of words was not good at all!
I didn't considered under this angle, I just meant that some patches were
added to CF to help patches authors, it was a good idea, but this had some
unexpected corner case. Sorry for the confusion.
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