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

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-05-16T21:10:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 5/16/24 16:48, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 10:46 PM Melanie Plageman 
>     I was reflecting on why a general purpose patch tracker sounded
>     appealing to me, and I realized that, at least at this time of year, I
>     have a few patches that really count as "waiting on author" that I
>     know I need to do additional work on before they need more review but
>     which aren't currently my top priority. I should probably simply
>     withdraw and re-register them. My justification was that I'll lose
>     them if I don't keep them in the commitfest app. But, I could just,
>     you know, save them somewhere myself instead of polluting the
>     commitfest app with them. I don't know if others are in this
>     situation. Anyway, I'm definitely currently guilty of parking.
> 
> 
> One thing I think we've talked about before (but not done) is to 
> basically have a CF called "parking lot", where you can park patches 
> that aren't active in a commitfest  but you also don't want to be dead. 
> It would probably also be doable to have the cf bot run patches in that 
> commitfest as well as the current one, if that's what people are using 
> it for there.

+1

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Joe Conway
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