Hackers, Clearly I ticked off a bunch of people by publishing "the list". On the other hand, in the 5 days succeeding the post, more than a dozen additional people signed up to review patches, and we got some of the "ready for committer" patches cleared out -- something which nothing else I did, including dozens of private emails, general pleas to this mailing list, mails to the RRReviewers list, served to accomplish, in this or previous CFs.
So, as an experiment, call it a mixed result. I would like to have some other way to motivate reviewers than public shame. I'd like to have some positive motivations for reviewers, such as public recognition by our project and respect from hackers, but I'm doubting that those are actually going to happen, given the feedback I've gotten on this list to the idea. I do think I succeeded in calling attention to the fact that this project has slid into a rut of letting a handful of people do 90% of the reviewing, resulting in CFs which last forever and some very frustrated major contributors. That part shouldn't be necessary again for some time, hopefully. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
