Re: Commitfest status

Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> > > Only 150 "patches" in that queue, if you eliminate all the discussions
> > > and threads:
> > > http://people.ifax.com/~aidan/pg/patches.mbox
> >
> > True, but we can't just discard all the ideas we had --- we need to
> > decide if they are worth persuing or adding to TODO.
>
> Sure, but ideas *are* discussed on the list as they come up. But it's
> not ideas that get committed during the commitfest.
>
> It's up to the "itchy" person to use the discussion on the lists around
> the ideas to come up with something concrete that *needs* to be more
> than hand-waving to be reviewed during a commit fest.
>
> That concrete something could be:
> *) A complete "patch"
> *) A partial patch (implementing step X of the discussed goals
> *) A defined implementation proposal (a patch minus C-language code)
>
> Ideas and discussion are important (actually vital). But the
> commit-fest is a period that reviewers and committers set apart time to
> process the *products* of ideas and proposals that have come about so
> far.

Well, when do we make decisions on these non-patch issue? Seems the
commit fest is the right time to that too.

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