Re: small but useful patches for text search

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:38:59AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
> > > Well, we have been working on stuff for the past month so it was not
> > > like we were waiting on SE-PG to move forward.
> >
> > Stuff related to the CommitFest?
> >
> > AFAICS, the only committer who has done any significant review or
> > committing of patches in the last month is Heikki, who extensively
> > reworked and then committed infrastructure changes for recovery on
> > February 18th (2 days shy of a month ago) and then extensively
> > reviewed Hot Standby and SE-PostgreSQL. It's really, really good that
> > those patches have finally received some extensive review, both
> > because now some version of each of them will likely make it into 8.5,
> > and because now we have only a handful of patches left that Tom has
> > said are pretty close to being committable. But I don't see how you
> > can say it didn't delay the release.
>
> You are assuming that only commit-fest work is required to get us to
> beta. You might remember the long list of open items I faced in January
> that I have whittled down, but I still have about twenty left.

What are those, and are there any you can delegate, or at least shout
out for help on?

> Tom has done work fixing optimizer bugs introduced in 8.4. I have had
> EnterpriseDB work to do and am working on the release notes now. The
> bottom line is that there is lots of cleanup required to get to beta
> independent of the last commit fest work.

How much of this cleanup work can be distributed?

> I agree if we had said "no" to those patches we could be farther
> now, but I am not sure how much farther.

One way to find out is to make a list of all the things that happen
and see how to get more people, productively, on it :)

Cheers,
David.
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