From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Commit fest queue |
Date: | 2008-04-10 01:38:29 |
Message-ID: | 200804100138.m3A1cTp13891@momjian.us |
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Brendan Jurd wrote:
> > Does that move us in the direction of the patch tracker? That does
> > raise the bar for patch submitters, though I would catch any patches
> > that weren't in the tracker.
> >
>
> I suppose you could say that it would raise the bar, but for what it's
> worth I would much *rather* be maintaining a wiki page / row in a wiki
> table than sending emails with attachments to a list. Especially if
> the wiki is equipped with clever templates for doing same*.
>
> When you consider the hours spent reading and understanding existing
> code, making changes and compiling/recompiling/regression testing that
> a patch author needs to do in order to even create a patch, the extra
> five minutes it takes to add a line to a wiki table doesn't really
> signify. And pretty much pays for itself in terms of the immediate
> satisfaction of knowing that your patch is now safely in the correct
> queue.
I think there is concern that trivial patches wouldn't be submitted to a
patch tracker, especially by new submitters. Again, I am willing to
track the ones that aren't in the patch tracker, but then we have two
places where patches exist (perhaps three with the wiki).
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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