Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta

Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> > Can you be a little clearer on which things are non-working patches, and
> > which things are pending due to lack of review?
>
> The only things I currently want to reject as not having provided a
> timely patch are bitmap indexes and updatable views. The other stuff
> I mentioned is in need of review, but I don't currently have a reason
> to think it can't get in.
>
> > I'm all for bouncing
> > stuff that's not ready to go, but bouncing stuff because we haven't
> > recruited enough code reviewers is just bad practice.
>
> Well, it's taken us the full month to get this far through the queue, so
> I'd sure like to have more people on board reviewing next time. Alvaro
> helped but I miss Neil Conway, and some other people have helped in the
> past. However --- the present situation has nothing to do with lack of
> reviewers, it's lack of time to finish the patches.

I did try to get us additional help in reviewing. Neil was unavailable,
and Alvaro could only give part of his time.

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