Re: a few thoughts on the schedule

On 2015-05-13 11:52:40 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> One thing that continues to bother me about the commitfest process is that
> it's created a default expectation that things get committed eventually.
> But many new ideas are just plain bad, and others are things that nobody
> but the author cares about. We need to remember that every new feature
> we add creates an ongoing maintenance burden, and might foreclose better
> ideas later. I'd like to see a higher threshold for accepting feature
> patches than we seem to have applied of late.

Agreed that this is a problem. I think we need to work on giving that
feedback rather sooner than later. It's one thing to be given a -1 a
week or two after a patch gets proposed, another being given it 10
revisions and half a year later.

How about we really try to triage the patches a) before the CF starts,
b) half into the CF?

I guess we'd have to somebody making a summary of each patch, and their
own opinion. Then that list can be discussed. I don't really like that,
because it involves a fair amount of work and has a good bit of
potential for personal preferences to creep in. But I don't have a
better idea.

If necessary I'll do that for the first CF.

Greetings,

Andres Freund