Re: commitfest.postgresql.org is no longer fit for purpose

On 5/17/24 11:58, Robert Haas wrote:
> I realize that many people here are (rightly!) concerned with
> burdening patch authors with more steps that they have to follow. But
> the current system is serving new patch authors very poorly. If they
> get attention, it's much more likely to be because somebody saw their
> email and wrote back than it is to be because somebody went through
> the CommitFest and found their entry and was like "oh, I should review
> this". Honestly, if we get to a situation where a patch author is sad
> because they have to click a link every 2 months to say "yeah, I'm
> still here, please review my patch," we've already lost the game. That
> person isn't sad because we asked them to click a link. They're sad
> it's already been N * 2 months and nothing has happened.

+many

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