Re: Patch queue -> wiki

"Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:

> FWIW I've been asking patch submitters (privately) to add the patches
> they submit to the May commitfest pages, and they've mostly done it
> right away.  If you click the history link on the May page you can see
> changes from Pavel Stehule, Teodor, Andrew Dunstan, Greg Start and Tom
> -- so we already have a reasonably complete overview of what we need to
> do on the next commitfest.  I don't expect this to be a one-time affair.

I think asking submitters to add their patches is a good idea and in fact
Heikki's suggestion of having the wiki be primarily driven by submitters is a
good idea. It gives people a central place to go back and check and find all
the collected reviews and CVS status of their work and keeps us honest.

I would like to suggest a few attributes we want for each patch:

1) Patch maturity (whether it was proposed as a design, WIP, or submission for  committing).

2) Reviewers interested in working on the patch. I think it would help  organize ourselves and make sure all the
patchesget covered. Also, it  would help get people involved who are otherwise overtaken by more "senior"  postgres
hackers.Those hackers would probably focus on patches that were  beyond the ability of more "junior" hackers and were
otherwisegetting  ignored.
 

3) Committers working on integrating the code. No point in risking duplication.

My first instinct is to convert it to a table. But perhaps we could just stick
these attributes in the current format as sublist items under each major
bullet point.

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