Re: 2018-03 Commitfest starts tomorrow

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 6:42 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> writes:
> > I'll be starting the Commitfest at midnight AoE (07:00 ET, 13:00 CET) so
> > please get your patches in before then.
> > Please remember that if you drop a new and large (or invasive patch)
> > into this CF it may be moved to the next CF.
> > This last CF for PG11 should generally be restricted to patches that
> > have gone through review in prior CFs or are modest in scope.
>
> As of right now, there are 229 entries in this commitfest (not counting
> the items already committed or RWF).
>
> It's hard for me to tell for sure, because the activity log page doesn't
> stretch back far enough, but I think about 40 of those have been created
> in the last 24 hours. It's certainly well over 20, because the log does
> go back far enough to show 21 patch records created since about noon
> Wednesday UTC.

> This is NOT how it is supposed to work. This is gaming the system.
>
> I think that we should summarily bounce to the September 'fest anything
> submitted in the last two days; certainly anything that's nontrivial.
>

So FYI, it's now 250. Of those, 52 entered into this commitfest on or
after 2018-02-27. 4 of those have already been committed, 2 have been
bumped to the next CF already,and 1 have been returned with feedback. The
remaining ones are:

The remaining 45 are, ordered by time created:

created | name
-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2018-03-01 04:55:27.137536+00 | CALL optional in PL/pgSQL
2018-03-01 04:54:22.744169+00 | fixing more format truncation issues
2018-03-01 04:52:18.850775+00 | chained transactions
2018-03-01 04:40:15.717802+00 | symlink installs
2018-03-01 03:43:11.291135+00 | INOUT parameters in procedures
2018-03-01 02:35:17.891509+00 | SET TRANSACTION in PL/pgSQL
2018-03-01 01:09:05.311986+00 | PL/pgSQL nested CALL with transactions
2018-02-28 22:03:10.596235+00 | kNN for SP-GiST
2018-02-28 20:48:49.571036+00 | ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE for partitioned
tables
2018-02-28 20:25:40.090748+00 | Unlogged tables re-initialization tests
2018-02-28 18:43:30.279979+00 | Cast jsonb to numeric, int, float, bool
2018-02-28 18:23:06.778516+00 | Verify Checksums during Basebackups
2018-02-28 17:51:42.673335+00 | Exclude temp relations from base backup
2018-02-28 17:30:24.379294+00 | Predicate locking in gin index
2018-02-28 17:21:13.384903+00 | JIT compiling expressions & tuple deforming
2018-02-28 16:50:56.90176+00 | Fix "unsupported type" with custom numeric
types in convert_to_scalar
2018-02-28 16:04:58.177284+00 | Reduce amount of WAL generated by CREATE
INDEX for gist, gin and sp-gist
2018-02-28 15:08:41.387825+00 | Direct converting numeric types to bool
2018-02-28 13:21:51.011607+00 | Parallel Dump to /dev/null
2018-02-28 12:13:24.574376+00 | Function to track shmem reinit time
2018-02-28 09:08:57.072633+00 | Transactions involving multiple postgres
foreign servers
2018-02-28 09:05:54.350725+00 | Changing the autovacuum launcher
scheduling; oldest table first algorithm
2018-02-28 08:35:13.412586+00 | Remove DSM_IMPL_NONE
2018-02-28 08:17:23.041707+00 | Standby cannot catch up primary after
pg_rewind
2018-02-28 08:00:42.722103+00 | Nepali Snowball dictionary
2018-02-28 05:17:45.996946+00 | committing inside cursor loop
2018-02-28 05:09:48.206717+00 | pg_proc.prokind column
2018-02-28 04:59:20.404494+00 | remove pg_class.relhaspkey
2018-02-28 04:54:20.724058+00 | handling of heap rewrites in logical
decoding
2018-02-28 01:10:13.21312+00 | line_perp() (?-|) is broken.
2018-02-28 01:06:53.160372+00 | Comment of formdesc() forgets
pg_subscription.
2018-02-28 01:03:20.27799+00 | Correctly inhibit indexonly when multiple
occurrence of an index column
2018-02-28 00:58:30.290382+00 | Increase initdb's fallback value of
max_connection to 20
2018-02-27 21:51:43.73461+00 | Opclass parameters
2018-02-27 14:52:56.724349+00 | Reopen logfile on SIGHUP
2018-02-27 14:38:47.501649+00 | ActivePerl 5.24.3 breaks PG compilation in
Windows
2018-02-27 12:08:11.868829+00 | IndexJoin memory problem using spgist and
boxes
2018-02-27 08:20:40.427917+00 | ConvertRowtypeExpr reference errors from
partition-wise join
2018-02-27 08:19:01.520217+00 | Advanced partition matching for
partition-wise join
2018-02-27 08:16:42.223138+00 | Nested ConvertRowtypeExpr optimization
2018-02-27 02:50:30.05116+00 | Incorrect flag passed to
initial_cost_hashjoin()
2018-02-27 02:46:24.638636+00 | Minor clean-up in dshash.{c,h}
2018-02-27 02:43:15.150911+00 | Removing shm_mq.c's volatile qualifiers
2018-02-27 02:41:29.914889+00 | Align isolation tester output
2018-02-27 02:39:09.2725+00 | Updating parallel.sgml's treatment of
parallel joins

Bugfixes should of course still be done, even if submitted late (as we keep
doing bugfixes even if there is no CF open at all..)

Trivial ones can certainly be picked up as well.

> There is no way that we can possibly handle 200+ CF entries in a month.
> A large fraction of these are going to end up pushed to September no
> matter what, and I think simple fairness demands that we spend our
> time on the ones that are not Johnny-come-latelies.
>

+1.

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