Re: Commitfest 2023-03 starting tomorrow!

Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 10:59 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>> This led me to suggesting that perhaps we need to be more lenient when
>> it comes to new contributors. As I said, for seasoned contributors,
>> it's not a problem to keep up with our requirements, however silly they
>> are. But people who spend their evenings a whole week or month trying
>> to understand how to patch for one thing that they want, to be received
>> by six months of silence followed by a constant influx of "please rebase
>> please rebase please rebase", no useful feedback, and termination with
>> "eh, you haven't rebased for the 1001th time, your patch has been WoA
>> for X days, we're setting it RwF, feel free to return next year" ...
>> they are most certainly off-put and will *not* try again next year.

> Right, that is pretty discouraging.

It is that. I think that the fundamental problem is that we don't have
enough reviewing/committing manpower to deal with all this stuff in a
timely fashion. That doesn't seem to have an easy fix :-(.

regards, tom lane