From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Assisting developers |
Date: | 2004-07-13 14:57:09 |
Message-ID: | 200407131457.i6DEv9H22470@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > One failing that has appeared during the 7.5 development cycle is that
> > we as a community haven't been able to provide timely feedback to
> > developers working on large feature additions.
> >
> > I am particularly thinking of Alvaro (nested transactions) and Simon
> > (PITR), where we haven't been able to give them sufficient feedback to
> > make them fully productive.
> >
> > I am not sure what can be done to solve this in the future. There are
> > only a limited number of us who have the experience and time to review
> > and comment on very complex patches.
> >
> > Hopefully this is just growing pains and the community will grow to the
> > point where we can have more people focused on assisting developers
> > adding complex features.
>
> Well, I note (and I'm not being unkind or anything here) that a lot of
> the high level committers we have haven't been so active this release.
> Peter and Joe haven't been around much and Jan has been busy with Slony.
> We also lost Thomas Lockhart. Neil's also away on holidays. You and
> Tom have basically been doing all the reviewing - a great job - but I
> can't believe Tom hasn't cracked yet :P
Excellent analysis.
> I've been around for years, but I've never really gotten into the depths
> of things, so I'm not much use for checking complex patches, but I'm
> willing to review simpler stuff :)
>
> Maybe you should promote a new committer? (Not me!)
The committing isn't really the issue. It is reviewing and giving
feedback to developers of complex features.
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