Re: new commitfest transition guidance

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: new commitfest transition guidance
Date: 2025-02-06 00:14:14
Message-ID: CAH2-WzmjoXAJmovkaRNHKA1YcAaqFpebbVjkUExmQ_wzVPvdRg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> As of right now, I see that 79 CF entries have been manually pushed to
> 2025-03 (but it's hard to tell how many of those were moved before
> 2025-01 closed). 180 live entries are still in 2025-01, including
> 20 RfC ones. I think this experiment is already proving to be a
> failure, and if you increase the cost of compliance substantially,
> people just won't do it at all.

Evidently this new policy is why my skip scan patch series wasn't
being tested by CI.

I just don't think that this new policy makes sense. At least not as
implemented. Do we all now need to set ourselves reminders to re-enter
patches to each CF, lest we be accused of abandoning patches due to a
lack of interest?

--
Peter Geoghegan

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