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Re: new commitfest transition guidance

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>

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From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jacob Brazeal <jacob.brazeal@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2025-02-19T15:13:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

> > On Feb 19, 2025, at 10:02 AM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> > The opposite, which was discussed at length at FOSDEM, was to ask authors to
> > click a single button once a month at most.  If that level of engagement is too
> > much to ask then maybe said authors should question why they in return ask
> > others to spend hours reviewing?
>
> Exactly this.

True, but didn't we just discover that it doesn't work?

"""
There's a bunch that are still not moved, that I know should be moved. [...]
"""

I agree about the fact that "no interest" status might be a bit too
judgmental. There might be interest but no time. Perhaps something
like "no activity" or "closed due to inactivity" would be more
appropriate / neutral. We should also emphasise in the emails that the
author is free to reopen the entry if he/she believes it was closed by
mistake.

I also agree that we should account for feature freezes.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev