Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Selena Deckelmann wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Robert Haasrobertmh...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I'm game, though I'm hoping not to become the guy who spends all his time doing release planning, because I like writing code, too. Hopefully Selena won't mind my mentioning that she

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com writes: We also very occasionally step in and make a decision if -hackers (or another group) is deadlocked over an issue. For example, the whole 'change the name' debate. I wouldn't really hold that up as a shining example of a core decision. :) The

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-10 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 We also very occasionally step in and make a decision if -hackers (or another group) is deadlocked over an issue. For example, the whole 'change the name'

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-10 Thread Josh Berkus
Greg, Time to start lobbying for the name change again I suppose. As Bruce said two years ago in August 2007: Man, you are a masochist, aren't you? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. www.pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-06 Thread Kristian Larsson
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 07:22:27PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Josh Berkusj...@agliodbs.com wrote: That implies that we need a release manager. Electing one would be the first step. That's a lot of work and responsibility, with lots of potential for making

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 07:44 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On ons, 2009-09-02 at 12:52 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Isn't core supposed to be the release manager? The core team has historically been the release *maker* and has some done management of the final phases of that process. But

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Joshua D. Drakej...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 07:44 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On ons, 2009-09-02 at 12:52 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Isn't core supposed to be the release manager? The core team has historically been the release

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:41 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Joshua D. Drakej...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 07:44 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On ons, 2009-09-02 at 12:52 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Isn't core supposed to be the release

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Joshua D. Drakej...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:41 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Joshua D. Drakej...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 07:44 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On ons, 2009-09-02 at

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 12:00 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: O.k. so the second part of this, is I feel it should contain a majority of people who are not already being slammed into the ground by community work. E.g; let's get some fresh blood. It is certainly important to have a couple of long

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: /me pokes Robert Haas and Kevin Grittner I'm honored to be suggested for such a role. I'm happy to do what I can, but am reluctant to put myself too squarely in any critical path, as I have responsibility for dealing with some family health

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Selena Deckelmann
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Robert Haasrobertmh...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I'm game, though I'm hoping not to become the guy who spends all his time doing release planning, because I like writing code, too. Hopefully Selena won't mind my mentioning that she sent me a private email

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Josh Berkus
Selena, Robert, Brendan, Kevin, One of the ideas behind the Alpha releases was to give someone other than the core team some practice doing releases. So I think it would make sense for you guys to do Alpha2. Agreed, Peter? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. www.pgexperts.com -- Sent via

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 10:21 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: Selena, Robert, Brendan, Kevin, One of the ideas behind the Alpha releases was to give someone other than the core team some practice doing releases. So I think it would make sense for you guys to do Alpha2. Agreed, Peter? I think we

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Josh Berkusj...@agliodbs.com wrote: Selena, Robert, Brendan, Kevin, One of the ideas behind the Alpha releases was to give someone other than the core team some practice doing releases. So I think it would make sense for you guys to do Alpha2.  Agreed, Peter?

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Selena Deckelmann
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Josh Berkusj...@agliodbs.com wrote: Selena, Robert, Brendan, Kevin, One of the ideas behind the Alpha releases was to give someone other than the core team some practice doing releases. So I think it would make sense for you guys to do Alpha2.  Agreed, Peter?

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: So I think it would make sense for you guys to do Alpha2. I'm not really clear on what that means. I'm assuming that part of the goal is for us to become more intimately familiar with the details of putting together a release, documenting the process, and

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com writes: Selena, Robert, Brendan, Kevin, One of the ideas behind the Alpha releases was to give someone other than the core team some practice doing releases. Uh, what's the point of that? The existing core team has that process perfectly well in hand. What I

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Tom Lanet...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com writes: Selena, Robert, Brendan, Kevin, One of the ideas behind the Alpha releases was to give someone other than the core team some practice doing releases. Uh, what's the point of that?  The

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Selena Deckelmann
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Tom Lanet...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com writes: Selena, Robert, Brendan, Kevin, One of the ideas behind the Alpha releases was to give someone other than the core team some practice doing releases. Uh, what's the point of that?  The

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Stephen Frost
* Joshua D. Drake (j...@commandprompt.com) wrote: She would definitely be a good option if she has time. I know that I would be interested and I would like to see at least one long time -hacker on board. I don't presume to be a long time -hacker, but I'm interested in what I can do to help

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-03 Thread Brendan Jurd
2009/9/4 Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com: On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 12:00 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: And /me pokes Brendan Jurd.  :-) Hah! I almost listed him. /me adds a poke to Brendan Jurd. /me stirs from sleep to announce huh? whaddyawant? Seriously though, I have been keeping an eye

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread KaiGai Kohei
Robert Haas wrote: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-08/msg01651.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-08/msg01983.php Josh's schedule was subsequently endorsed by Simon Riggs. So by my count we now have four votes for a 4-CF schedule and one for a 3-CF

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Robert Haas wrote: I think this is a good illustration of the problems with decision-making in a community environment - given choices 3 and 4 most of the votes were somewhere between 3.25 and 3.75. I think, in general, that when people weigh in with clear opinions, we're pretty good about

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Selena Deckelmann
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Heikki Linnakangasheikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: That implies that we need a release manager. Electing one would be the first step. That's a lot of work and responsibility, with lots of potential for making people cross, so in practice I think as

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 12:50 -0700, Selena Deckelmann wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Heikki Linnakangasheikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: That implies that we need a release manager. Electing one would be the first step. That's a lot of work and responsibility, with lots of

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake escribió: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 12:50 -0700, Selena Deckelmann wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Heikki Linnakangasheikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: That implies that we need a release manager. Electing one would be the first step. That's a lot of work

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Alvaro Herreraalvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Joshua D. Drake escribió: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 12:50 -0700, Selena Deckelmann wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Heikki Linnakangasheikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: That implies that we need a

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Robert Haasrobertmh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Alvaro Herreraalvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Joshua D. Drake escribió: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 12:50 -0700, Selena Deckelmann wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Heikki

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: Previous emails from Tom seem to indicate that the mandate of -core is mostly to decide things like the timing of releases. If we gave that job to somebody else, would there be anything left for -core to do? If so, what? And on the flip side, it is

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Robert Haasrobertmh...@gmail.com wrote: Previous emails from Tom seem to indicate that the mandate of -core is mostly to decide things like the timing of releases. That's not all we do. If we gave that job to somebody else, would there be anything left for

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: Anyway, I'm still curious about what'n'all -core actually does. Not a lot. That's a feature, not a bug. Most project management discussion happens on -hackers. If -hackers can't come to a decision then core will try to resolve the deadlock (assuming

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Josh Berkus
Robert, Heikki, http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-08/msg01651.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-08/msg01983.php Josh's schedule was subsequently endorsed by Simon Riggs. So by my count we now have four votes for a 4-CF schedule and one for a 3-CF

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Josh Berkusj...@agliodbs.com wrote: Robert, Heikki, http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-08/msg01651.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-08/msg01983.php Josh's schedule was subsequently endorsed by Simon Riggs.  So by my count

Re: [HACKERS] community decision-making 8.5

2009-09-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2009-09-02 at 12:52 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Isn't core supposed to be the release manager? The core team has historically been the release *maker* and has some done management of the final phases of that process. But I think the sentiment is growing that we need more management