Re: Multi-xacts and our process problem

On 05/11/2015 04:04 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 03:42:26PM -0700, Joshua Drake wrote:
>>> What I am arguing is that the release cycle is at least a big part
>>> of the problem. We are trying to get so many new features that bugs
>>> are increasing and quality is decreasing.
>
>> Now that is an interesting observation --- are we too focused on patches
>> and features to realize when we need to seriously revisit an issue?
>
> I think there's nobody, or at least very few people, who are getting
> paid to find/fix bugs rather than write cool new features. This is
> problematic. It doesn't help when key committers are overwhelmed by
> trying to process other peoples' patches. (And no, I'm not sure that
> "appoint more committers" would improve matters. What we've got is
> too many barely-good-enough patches. Tweaking the process to let those
> into the tree faster will not result in better quality.)

Exactly correct.

JD

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