Re: small but useful patches for text search

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> I personally think that the way pgsql-hackers organizes itself using
>> email is completely insane.
> Note that during the 8.4 timeframe we've stolen a lot of work from
> Bruce.  The TODO list was moved to the wiki, for one; the "patch queue"
> was also moved to the wiki.  Now the FAQ has moved to wiki (and has
> already seen lots of improvement, so it was clearly a good move).
> Previously this was all handled as email boxes, so while some
> inefficiences in the process still remain, we're a lot better than we
> were in the 8.3 cycle.

Good point.

>> Similarly, the only reason we don't have a workable TODO list is
>> because you're attempting to extract it from a disorganized jumble of
>> email after the fact, instead of maintaining it publicly and adding
>> and removing items along the way.
>
> We do have an alternative "open items" list,
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.4_Open_Items
> However, it's incomplete.  It is a bit sad that nobody can complete it,
> because Bruce has taken "pgpatches" out of the air.  (Of course, anybody
> could go fetch all the pgsql-hackers emails and dig up the remaining
> open items to add them there, but that would be duplicative of the
> effort Bruce has already put into his own queue).

I don't even understand why we're interested in doing this. If the
patches weren't important enough for someone to add them to the
CommitFest wiki in October, why are we delaying the release to hunt
for them in March? I personally spent hours and hours of time in late
October dredging up every patch that looked anywhere close to
reviewable (not committable, reviewable!) and put them all on the
wiki. Now, it's certainly possible that I missed something, but
there's been plenty of time between then and now and I think there's
only been 1 or 2 complaints about things being overlooked (and those
were very, very old patches from before I started reading the mailing
list regularly).

...Robert