Re: Is there a committer in the house?

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> >> Alvaro,
> >>
> >> > It seems that by mentioning some people but not all, you offended both
> >> > the people you mentioned (at least some of them, because they are
> >> > already actively helping) and those that you didn't (at least some of
> >> > them, because they are already actively helping; those that are not
> >> > completely inactive in the project, that is).
> >>
> >> Yeah, everybody's super-touchy this week. ? Must be the weather.
> >
> > Somehow blaming everyone else doesn't seem like the proper reaction. ?:-(
> 
> I don't think Josh's tone is really the problem we should be worrying
> about here.  He's pointing out a legitimate problem.  If you go back
> and look at the CF app for 9.1, you'll see that Tom, Peter, and I
> committed the overwhelming majority of the patches which were
> submitted to CFs and went on to get committed.  So if we have a
> CommitFest where Tom is on vacation and Peter is devoting his time to
> polishing release N-1 rather than new development on release N, then
> we're either going to need a much larger investment of time by one or
> more other committers, or we're not really going to get through
> everything.  When you lose the efforts of somebody who might commit 10
> or 20 patches in a CF and comment usefully on another 10 or 20, it
> leaves a big hole.

This mostly revoles around the problem of trying to finalize 9.1 while
applying 9.2 patches --- no surprise we don't have enough cycles to do
that.

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