Re: commitfest 2018-07

On 06/06/2018 11:57 AM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>
>> On Jun 5, 2018, at 1:34 PM, Jonathan S. Katz 
>> <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com 
>> <mailto:jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Jun 5, 2018, at 10:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us 
>>> <mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz <mailto:michael@paquier.xyz>> 
>>> writes:
>>>> Okay.  If we tend toward this direction, I propose to do this switch in
>>>> two days my time (Thursday afternoon in Tokyo) if there are no
>>>> objections, so as anybody has hopefully time to argue back.
>>>
>>> I think we probably have to wait longer.  It's not clear to me when the
>>> RMT will decide that the 07 fest is go or no-go, but surely they've
>>> not decided yet.
>>
>> The RMT has its every-other-week catchup planned for tomorrow,
>> and we will discuss if we see any obstacles then and report back
>> posthaste.
>
> Reporting back from the RMT meeting, the final decision on this has 
> not yet
> been made, but here is some guidance:
>
> - The main focus of the RMT is ensuring that PostgreSQL 11 is as stable
> as possible and we encourage the community to continue working on the
> open items[1] and ensuring this list is small.
>
> - We do need someone to volunteer for CFM (and for anyone new,
> CFM means "commitfest manager” :-) because without a CFM there is
> no commitfest.
>
> - Per discussions at the developer meeting, we do encourage the CFM
> to perform some initial triage to try to move larger patches to 2018-09 CF
> so that way we are not distracted while polishing and stabilizing the 11
> release.
>
> With the usual exception for forward looking statements, based on the
> current open items we do not anticipate anything delaying the start of the
> 2018-07 CF, unless something really bad comes up, but let’s ensure we
> have someone who is ready to lead the CF effort and we continue
> solving the open issues.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_11_Open_Items


I'll volunteer for CFM, which seems appropriate since I was one of the 
supporters of having an extra CF.

cheers

andrew

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