Re: [HACKERS] new CommitFest states

2009-12-18 Thread Greg Smith
Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Greg Smith wrote: Robert Haas wrote: I don't think there should be a transition from Returned with Feedback back to Waiting for review. Granted we might allow that occasionally as an exceptional case, but normally Returned with Feed

Re: [HACKERS] new CommitFest states

2009-12-14 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> I don't think there should be a transition from Returned with Feedback >> back to Waiting for review.  Granted we might allow that occasionally >> as an exceptional case, but normally Returned with Feedback is a final >> s

Re: [HACKERS] new CommitFest states

2009-12-14 Thread Greg Smith
Robert Haas wrote: I don't think there should be a transition from Returned with Feedback back to Waiting for review. Granted we might allow that occasionally as an exceptional case, but normally Returned with Feedback is a final state. I did throw some disclaimers in the notes about this par

Re: [HACKERS] new CommitFest states

2009-12-14 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > Kevin Grittner wrote: > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Running_a_CommitFest > > > > It seems to me that a patch could move from "Discussing review" to > "Needs review" -- if the reviewer decided to discuss the approach > before continuing th

Re: [HACKERS] new CommitFest states

2009-12-14 Thread Greg Smith
Kevin Grittner wrote: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Running_a_CommitFest It seems to me that a patch could move from "Discussing review" to "Needs review" -- if the reviewer decided to discuss the approach before continuing the review process and the discussion confirms the approach as

Re: [HACKERS] new CommitFest states

2009-12-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
Greg Smith wrote: > I didn't really get any feedback on my proposal to add a new > "Discussing review" state It seems like a good idea to me; it better models the reality. > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Running_a_CommitFest It seems to me that a patch could move from "Discussing review"

Re: [HACKERS] new CommitFest states

2009-12-12 Thread Greg Smith
I didn't really get any feedback on my proposal to add a new "Discussing review" state to help out the reviewers and CF manager. To show how adding it helps track the common flow of patches through the system, I turned the whole CF into a big state machine and marked how the transitions should

Re: [HACKERS] new CommitFest states (was: YAML)

2009-12-07 Thread Greg Smith
Robert Haas wrote: On a related note, Greg Smith requested a state called "Discussing Review", which would logically follow "Needs Review" and precede "Waiting for Author"/"Ready for Committer"/"Returned with Feedback". I'm not altogether convinced of the value of that state, but I'm not altogeth

Re: [HACKERS] new CommitFest states (was: YAML)

2009-12-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Itagaki Takahiro writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> It was written and submitted by one person who did not bother to ask >>> first whether anyone else thought it was worthwhile.  So its presence >>> on the CF list should not be taken as evidence tha