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Re: commitfest.postgresql.org is no longer fit for purpose

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

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From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-05-17T16:10:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 5/17/24 11:58, Robert Haas wrote:
> I realize that many people here are (rightly!) concerned with
> burdening patch authors with more steps that they have to follow. But
> the current system is serving new patch authors very poorly. If they
> get attention, it's much more likely to be because somebody saw their
> email and wrote back than it is to be because somebody went through
> the CommitFest and found their entry and was like "oh, I should review
> this". Honestly, if we get to a situation where a patch author is sad
> because they have to click a link every 2 months to say "yeah, I'm
> still here, please review my patch," we've already lost the game. That
> person isn't sad because we asked them to click a link. They're sad
> it's already been N * 2 months and nothing has happened.

+many

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Joe Conway
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