Re: Commitfest problems

On 12/10/2014 10:35 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have heard repeated concerns about the commitfest process in the past
> few months.  The fact we have been in a continual commitfest since
> August also is concerning.
> 
> I think we are reaching the limits on how much we can do with our
> existing commitfest structure, and it might be time to consider changes.
> While the commitfest process hasn't changed much and was very successful
> in the first few years, a few things have changed externally:
> 
>     1  more new developers involved in contributing small patches
>     2  more full-time developers creating big patches
>     3  increased time demands on experienced Postgres developers

I will add:

4. commitfest managers have burned out and refuse to do it again

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