From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Hannu Krosing <hannuk(at)google(dot)com>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches |
Date: | 2024-06-06 18:12:37 |
Message-ID: | 1046940.1717697557@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 4:25 AM Hannu Krosing <hannuk(at)google(dot)com> wrote:
>> Not absolutely sure, but would at least adding a page to PostgreSQL
>> Wiki about this make sense ?
> I feel like we need to do something. Tom says this is a policy, and
> he's made that comment before about other things, but the fact that
> they're not memorialized anywhere is a huge problem, IMHO.
I didn't say it wasn't ;-)
ISTM we have two basic choices: wiki page, or new SGML docs section.
In the short term I'd lean to a wiki page. It'd be reasonable for
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Committing_checklist
to link to it (and maybe the existing section there about release
freezes would be more apropos on a "Project policies" page? Not
sure.)
To get a sense of how much of a problem we have, I grepped the git
history for comments mentioning project policies. Ignoring ones
that are really talking about very localized issues, what I found
is attached. It seems like it's little enough that a single wiki
page with subsections ought to be enough. I'm not super handy with
editing the wiki, plus I'm only firing on one cylinder today (seem
to have acquired a head cold at pgconf), so maybe somebody else
would like to draft something?
regards, tom lane
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