Re: Commitfest problems

On 12/11/2014 09:02 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> On 12/11/14 1:35 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> While the commitfest process hasn't changed much and was very successful
>>> in the first few years, a few things have changed externally:
>>>
>>> 1 more new developers involved in contributing small patches
>>> 2 more full-time developers creating big patches
>>> 3 increased time demands on experienced Postgres developers
>
>> The number of patches registered in the commit fests hasn't actually
>> changed over the years. It has always fluctuated between 50 and 100,
>> depending on the point of the release cycle. So I don't think (1) is
>> necessarily the problem.

I don't think that's accurate. The number of patches per CF *has* edged
upwards by 10-30% per CF over the years:

http://www.databasesoup.com/2013/08/94-commitfest-1-wrap-up.html

(I haven't done the rest of 9.4 yet or 9.5)

No, it's not a jump up by 2X, but it is an upwards trend. And I think
that Tom has it right that the additional patches we're seeing are
additional large, complex patches.

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