Re: Lessons from commit fest

Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> No, changing that wasn't what I meant to suggest. My point here is that
>> we'd dropped a number of big mushy discussions into the queue with the
>> idea that they'd be re-opened during commit fest, but new discussion
>> did not happen to any useful extent. Conclusion: don't bother putting
>> anything less concrete than a patch on the fest queue.

> So when/how do those discussions get resolved?

[ shrug... ] You can't force ideas to happen on a schedule.

If you don't want an issue to get forgotten, then make a TODO entry for
it. But the purpose of commit fest is to make sure we deal with things
that can be dealt with in a timely fashion. It's not going to cause
solutions to unsolved problems to appear from nowhere.

regards, tom lane