Re: Commit fest queue

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com> writes:
>  > I just wanted to correct the apparent impression that "patches don't
>  > get ignored here".  Patches get ignored.  The difference between us
>  > and Apache is we pretend it doesn't happen and don't suggest to
>  > submitters what action to take when it does.  Which puts Apache ahead
>  > of us IMO.
>
>  Uh, no, there is a difference between "not acted on instantly" and
>  "never acted on at all".  The Apache docs that were quoted upthread
>  suggested that they might allow things to fall through the cracks
>  indefinitely without repeat prodding.  That might be (in fact very
>  likely is) an unfair assessment of their real response habits.
>  But you are claiming that not getting to a patch right away is as
>  bad as never getting to it at all.  I beg to disagree.
>

Not really.  I'm claiming that, to the submitter, a response that
hasn't happened yet and a response that is never coming look pretty
much identical.

Cheers,
BJ