Re: commitfest 2018-07

On 2018-06-05 10:20:55 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > I'd rather create a new 2018-07, and just manually move old patches to
> > it. Otherwise we'll not really focus on the glut of old things, but
> > everyone just restarts working on their own new thing.
> 
> I thought the idea was to clear out the underbrush of small, ready-to-go
> patches.  How old they are doesn't enter into that.
> 
> There's a separate issue about what to do to prioritize old patches so
> they don't linger indefinitely.  We had a discussion about that at the
> dev meeting, but I don't think any specific mechanism was agreed to?

I think we've not fully agreed on that.  I'd argue we should manually
filter things into the next CF. And both small patches and older things
should qualify.

Greetings,

Andres Freund