Re: Commitfest overflow

On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 03:42:57PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > But it's not clear to me whether you're arguing for CFM to assess this,
> > or whether someone else should make this decision?
>
> > IMHO asking the CFM to do this would be a tremendous burden - properly
> > assessing 50+ patches is a lot of work, and probably requires a fairly
> > experienced hacker ...
>
> Yeah. I can recall that once or twice, Andres went through and triaged
> all the open patches, which was tremendously helpful and I'm sure took a
> serious investment of time. That way doesn't scale. But maybe if we
> split the work among half a dozen or so senior hackers, it'd be a
> tolerable amount of work per-person?

Yes, I think we are going to need to do something like this.

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