Re: Lack of urgency in 8.3 reviewing

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- --On Wednesday, May 16, 2007 20:09:44 -0400 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
wrote:

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> I think one of the things that is preventing urgency is that everyone
> knows we have large patches unapplied, so they know that their lack of
> activity is not holding up the release. Any way around that?

Set a fixed date (ie. 3 weeks) and whatever isn't in gets punted to 8.4 ... if
that means those 'large patches' don't get applied, so be it ...
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> bruce wrote:
>> In talking to people who are assigned to review patches or could review
>> patches, I often get the reply, "Oh, yea, I need to do that".
>>
>> Folks, we are six weeks into feature freeze and have made slim progress
>> on getting patches reviewed and applied. As I stated earlier, we are
>> now looking at August/September for beta, but that might be pushed back
>> even later if we don't get more progress.
>>
>> It seems there is a lot of reliance on Tom to get the patches applied,
>> but I don't think that is fair or reasonable. I think we need more
>> urgency on the part of everyone to make faster progress. Patch
>> reviewers and committers need to take more initiative to get things done
>> rather than wait for some external force to prompt them.
>>
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>>
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> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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> + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
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