Re: Knngist for 8.5

List of holidays by country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_holidays_by_country

I'm not sure how it's valid, though. In Russia, for example,
russian goverment decreed holidays 1-10 January, 2010. I think next time we
should consider december-january as a half.

Oleg
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Robert Haas wrote:

> 2010/2/7 Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>:
>> I understand your complaints. I think, the real problem is that some of us
>> live in the part of word with long holidays in December, while we in Russia
>> have very long holidays in January. So, about a month we couldn't
>> synchronize developers and reviewers.  I'm not sure if we took this into
>> account.
>
> Yeah, that definitely made things harder.  I had the feeling when I
> started looking at this stuff over Christmas that it was going to take
> a really determined and non-stop effort to get it all done, and we
> haven't quite had that, either on the reviewing end or on your end.
> Your holidays slowed things down, but we also had a quite small pool
> of round-robin reviewers for this CF, and I couldn't get anyone to
> sign on for knngist.  Mark Cave-Ayland eventually volunteered but that
> was relatively late, and then he hasn't posted anything yet because he
> got involved in helping with rbtree (which by the way isn't quite
> done; we should really try to finish that up).  So I think it was a
> combination of things.
>
> By the way, I wish I had your holiday schedule!  Can you send me a few of those?
>
>> In regard to the knngist patch I want to claim, that I and Teodor are here
>> and willing to answer any questions.
>
> I really hope that Mark (or someone else) will post a review before
> this CommitFest is over.  I believe it is out of reach to get this
> committed for this CF, but it would sure be nice to see it get at
> least some review.  I would like to review it myself at some point,
> but I think right now I need to focus on things that are a little
> further along and have a better chance of getting in.
>
> ...Robert
>

 	Regards,
 		Oleg
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