Re: [9.4 CF 1] The Commitfest Slacker List

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-06-24T18:13:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 06/24/2013 10:59 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>
> On 2013-06-24 10:50:42 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>>> The problem with that is that that HUGELY depends on the patch and the
>>> review. There are patches where reviewers do a good percentage of the
>>> work and others where they mostly tell that "compiles & runs".
>>
>> This project is enormously stingy with giving credit to people.  It's
>> not like it costs us money, you know.
>
> Listing a reviewer that didn't do all that much at the same level as the
> author or an somebody having done an extensive review will cost you
> contributors in the long run.
>
> I am all for introducing a "Contributed by reviewing: ..." section in
> the release notes.

It should be listed with the specific feature.

JD


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