Re: Schedule for 9.5alpha1

On 06/25/2015 05:09 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> I'm tired of having to chase down known bugs when a patch has been
>>> around for a long time, and an actual fix is blocking on committer
>>> availability -- sometimes I feel the need to privately twist someone's
>>> arm just to get something done that should be straightforward.
>>
>> Patience is the key here IMO, committer time being precious. And I
>> guess that the requirement for the .0 release will be to clear all
>> those items btw, so they will be fixed at some point.
>
> Some more transparency in both directions, and the ability to triage
> bugs would be nice. Sometimes things aren't that complicated, but are
> still important (while other times, things can be complicated and
> unimportant). I have no good way of making a representation about
> which category any given bug fix falls under.
>
> Also, while the commitfest app makes it pretty likely that someone
> will get around to considering a bug fix eventually, the time that
> that takes is completely unbounded.

Perhaps Heroku could sponsor a committer or two for triage. I know there
are a couple that are not currently bound by other Pg companies.

Sincerely,

JD

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