Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>> Simon Riggs wrote:
> >>>> All have been awaiting review for at least a month (though in one case
> >>>> the latest version is quite recent). They probably ought to be on the
> >>>> hold queue; all are ready to be reviewed for final
> >>>> application/rejection.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd hasten to add that none of those are mine. My patches have received
> >>>> good attention, so I'm not complaining just completing admin.
> >>> You might remember months ago that people were complaining I was pushing
> >>> things into CVS too quickly, so while the patches are in my mailbox,
> >>> they are not in the queue until I feel the community has the time to
> >>> focus on it.
> >> So, there's a queue of patches in your mailbox waiting to get to the
> >> queue? A queue to the queue :). All the patches clearly need review, so
> >> let's not rush them into the CVS, but it'd be nice to have them all in
> >> one queue.
> >
> > Right, because even the decision of whether they should be in the queue
> > is a decision for us. The hold queue additions are less stringent than
> > the main patch queue.
>
> I'm confused, I thought the difference between the pgpatches queue and
> the pgpatches_hold queue is the release the patch is targeted for. If
> there's a third queue for patches that need review before being added to
> another queue, could we have that visible somewhere, so that we know
> what's in it?
Well, sort of. During 8.2 feature freeze the 8.2 hold queue was for
8.3, and the patches queue was for 8.2, but once we started 8.3, they
were both for 8.3.
>
> >> Ps. I agree with the later comments that the naming of the two patch
> >> queues is a bit confusing. Having queues named after the release numbers
> >> the patches are targeted for seems like a good idea.
> >
> > OK, naming suggestions?
>
> The "8.3 patch queue", and the "8.4 patch queue"?
Not really, no, as outlined above.
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