Wrapping up CommitFest 2009-11

Next Tuesday was our target date for being finished with the current 
CommitFest, and we're a little overdue to start kicking back a lot more 
patches that still clearly need a whole additional round of work on 
them.  Here's how that's going to happen:

This Tuesday 12/8 at noon GMT, I'm going to start transitioning anything 
that's been "Waiting for author" for more than 5 days to "Returned with 
Feedback", removing that patch from the current CommitFest.  If you've 
been given feedback some time ago but not acted on it, that's your 
deadline--not much time left to submit an new update and have it 
considered soon.  I'm going to continue kicking out more patches in that 
state each day afterwards too.  This, by the way, is likely to end up 
the standard policy for future CommitFests, possibly even turning 
automated one day:  5 days for authors to resubmit after review feedback 
before we just assume the patch is dead for this round.

We have a number of patches that have received updates from their 
authors that are waiting for a re-review.  I'm going to take a look at 
as many of these as I can as the second-pass reviewer to try and 
determine whether the patch is ready to pass to a committer or not.  I'd 
prefer to get the original reviewer to help make that assessment.  If 
you did a review for this CommitFest, please check the web application 
to see if there's been an update addressing your concerns and let me 
know what you think of the updated result.

There are also a couple of patches that for various reasons have yet to 
get a first review done.  We've been reassigning for those the last 
couple of days, and I expect that all those will also be looked at by 
Tuesday as well (except for SE-PostgreSQL/Lite, which we all know is a 
bit more complicated).  This will leave some time for their authors to 
respond to feedback before we close up here, and of course we still have 
one more CommitFest left for patches that are returned with feedback to 
be resubmitted for.

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Greg Smith    2ndQuadrant   Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg@2ndQuadrant.com  www.2ndQuadrant.com