Re: Lessons from commit fest

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > the fest, and I think it's unlikely to happen in future either.
> > > We should probably try to limit the focus of fests to consider only
> > > actual patches, with design discussions handled "live" during normal
> > > development, the way they've always been in the past.
> >
> > We have discouraged design discussions during feature freeze and beta ---
> > do we want to change that?
>
> In fact, discussions were discouraged during the March commitfest too.
>
> Perhaps this is a good idea -- discussions on new development should
> be deferred until the end of the commitfest, if one is in progress.
> We'll see what happens on the May commitfest, but my guess is that it
> will be a lot shorter than the March one. If it takes 1.5-2 weeks, it's
> not so bad, and it means people is eager to get the current patches done
> as quickly as possible so that discussions on items they are interested
> in can continue.

If you do that then the discussions bunch up, which is part of the
reason we had 2k emails for the March commit fest. Tom is saying not to
delay those discussions.

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