Re: next CommitFest

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>   
>> The docs case is a good example.  We do ask people to write docs, but I
>> don't think we will reject patches if people don't supply docs.  I am
>> not against any of the ideas suggested in this thread --- I am just
>> pointing out we are heading in a very new direction with the
>> _requirements_ mentioned.
>>     
>
> We reject patches for lack of docs all the time.  We certainly don't
> have a policy that the reviewer or committer will write the docs for
> you if you fail to write them yourself.  Sometimes the reviewer or
> committer will help copy edit, or will revise, but in most cases they
> won't write them from scratch.
>
> Of course, we don't reject such patches PERMANENTLY - people just add
> the docs and resubmit.
>
>
>   

In that case people are working on their own patches. That's quite 
different from asking/requiring them to work on somebody else's.

cheers

andrew