On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On 04/25/2011 12:40 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> At the risk of getting a bit cranky, you haven't participated in a
>> material way in any CommitFest we've had in well over a year. AFAICS,
>> the first, last, and only time you are listed in the CommitFest
>> application is as co-reviewer of a patch in July 2009, which means
>> that the last time you really had a major roll in this process was
>> during the 8.4 cycle. So I'm really rather suspicious that you know
>> what's wrong with the process and how to fix it better than the people
>> who are involved currently. I think we need here is more input from
>> the people who are regularly submitting and reviewing patches, and
>> those who have tried recently but been turned off by some aspect of
>> the process.
>
> Although a valid point, let's remember that conversely it is very easy for
> those who are closest to the process to lose themselves within that process.
> It never hurts to consider an objective opinion.
I agree. That's why I said "I think we need more input from the
people ho are regularly submitting and reviewing patches", rather
than, say, me, Tom, and Greg. Not that we're not smart guys, but we
are in this up to our eyeballs.
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Robert Haas
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