Re: 8.5 development schedule

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > There has been discussion about how to be more hard-nosed about
> > rejecting patches.  I think it has to start with us being more
> > hard-nosed about giving patches feedback --- the very idea we had to
> > create commit-fests reflects that we historically have not done an
> > organized job of processing patches.
> 
> > If we review patches as soon as they appear, and give rapid feedback, we
> > can easily reject patches that take more than a few days for the patch
> > author to resolve, and there would be little slippage;  the same goes
> > for dealing with known bugs.  I know it can be done, but I don't promise
> > it would be pleasant.
> 
> In other words, you propose dropping the idea of commitfests, and
> expecting committers to spend *all* their time reviewing?  Tain't
> happening.

"I don't promise it would be pleasant."

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