| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark(dot)cave-ayland(at)ilande(dot)co(dot)uk>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Commitfest problems |
| Date: | 2014-12-16 00:14:30 |
| Message-ID: | 548F7966.50908@agliodbs.com |
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On 12/15/2014 12:05 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 12/15/2014 11:27 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> I feel like we used to be better at encouraging people to participate
>>> in the CF even if they were not experts, and to do the best they can
>>> based on what they did know. That was a helpful dynamic. Sure, the
>>> reviews weren't perfect, but more people helped, and reviewing some of
>>> the patch well and some of it in a more cursory manner is way better
>>> than reviewing none of it at all.
>>
>> Well, it was strongly expressed to me by a number of senior contributors
>> on this list and at the developer meeting that inexpert reviews were not
>> really wanted, needed or helpful. As such, I stopped recruiting new
>> reviewers (and, for that matter, doing them myself). I don't know if
>> the same goes for anyone else.
>
> Really? I thought we were pretty consistent in encouraging new reviewers.
>
Read the thread on this list where I suggested crediting reviewers in
the release notes.
--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
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