Hi, At 2024.pgconf.dev, Andres and I will be hosting a patch review workshop.[1] Part of the workshop will be a presentation, and part of it will be a practicum. That is, we're going to actually ask attendees to review some patches during the workshop. We'll also comment on those reviews, and the patches themselves, with our own thoughts. While we could just pick some things from the CommitFest, I believe we both felt a little uncomfortable with the idea of potentially turning a spotlight on someone's patch where they might not have been expecting it. So, instead, I'd like to invite you to email me, and/or Andres, if you have a patch that isn't committed yet and which you think would be a good candidate for review during this workshop. If your patch is selected to be reviewed during the workshop, then you will very likely get some reviews for your patch posted on pgsql-hackers. But, there are no guarantees about how positive or negative those reviews will be, so you do need to be prepared to take the bad with the good.
Note that this is really an exercise in helping more people in the community to get better at reviewing patches. So, if Andres and I think that what your patch really needs is an opinion from Tom Lane specifically, or even an opinion from Andres Freund or Robert Haas specifically, we probably won't choose to include it in the workshop. But there are lots of patches that just need attention from someone, at least for starters, and perhaps this workshop can help some of those patches to make progress, in addition to (hopefully) being educational for the attendees. Key points: 1. If you have a patch you think would be a good candidate for this event, please email me and/or Andres. 2. Please only volunteer a patch that you wrote, not one that somebody else wrote. 3. Please don't suggest a patch that's already committed. Thanks, -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com [1] https://www.pgevents.ca/events/pgconfdev2024/schedule/session/40-patch-review-workshop-registration-required/
