Hi, On 2018-03-01 00:42:25 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > As of right now, there are 229 entries in this commitfest (not counting > the items already committed or RWF). > > It's hard for me to tell for sure, because the activity log page doesn't > stretch back far enough, but I think about 40 of those have been created > in the last 24 hours. It's certainly well over 20, because the log does > go back far enough to show 21 patch records created since about noon > Wednesday UTC. > > This is NOT how it is supposed to work. This is gaming the system.
Strongly agreed. There's a lot of stuff in here that has really no place being there. > I think that we should summarily bounce to the September 'fest anything > submitted in the last two days; certainly anything that's nontrivial. I've now gone through all the patches and commented on each of them in a summary http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20180302075242.yfqkcgzbrmjysboa%40alap3.anarazel.de I've sent comments to many of the ones that were submitted very late. I personally don't see much of a difference between submitting a brand new patch 2018-02-15 and 2018-02-25. There's rarely a meaningful difference in the amount of review features have gotten. > There is no way that we can possibly handle 200+ CF entries in a month. > A large fraction of these are going to end up pushed to September no > matter what, and I think simple fairness demands that we spend our > time on the ones that are not Johnny-come-latelies. A surprisingly large part of those are ones that haven't meaningfully evolved between the last few CFs. I think we need to used 'moved to next CF' a lot less frequently. > We also need to be pretty hard-nosed about quickly bouncing anything > that's not realistically going to be able to get committed this month. > I've not gone through the list in detail, but there are at least several > waiting-on-author items that have seen no activity since the last 'fest. > I'd recommend marking those RWF pretty soon. I've done so, or proposed doing so, for a lot of them. Having gone through all patches and having at least opened each of the ~230 open items, one thing that makes me extremely unhappy is that there's a *massive* imbalance around reviews. There's a few folks that do a lot of reviews in a lot of different areas, and there's others that have lot and lots of huge patches open but don't do much to help others. I don't think that's ok. Greetings, Andres Freund
