Re: Sync Rep for 2011CF1

On 02/09/2011 07:53 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On mån, 2011-02-07 at 12:55 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Robert Haas<robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>>> ... Well, the current CommitFest ends in one week, ...
>>> Really? I thought the idea for the last CF of a development cycle was
>>> that it kept going till we'd dealt with everything. Arbitrarily
>>> rejecting stuff we haven't dealt with doesn't seem fair.
>> Uh, we did that with 8.4 and it was a disaster. The CommitFest lasted
>> *five months*. We've been doing schedule-based CommitFests ever since
>> and it's worked much better.
> The previous three commit fests contained about 50 patches each and
> lasted one month each. The current commit fest contains about 100
> patches, so it shouldn't be surprising that it will take about 2 months
> to get through it.
>
> Moreover, under the current process, it is apparent that reviewing is
> the bottleneck. More code gets written than gets reviewed. By
> insisting on the current schedule, we would just push the growing review
> backlog ahead of ourselves. The solution (at least short-term, while
> maintaining the process) has to be to increase the resources (in
> practice: time) dedicated to reviewing relative to coding.

Personally I think it's not unreasonable to extend the final commitfest
of the release some. It doesn't need to be a huge amount longer,
certainly not five months, but a couple of weeks to a month might be fair.

cheers

andrew