Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, Robert, Simon, What, are people just on edge because of the US election? It looks to me like the commitfest system is going really well. Of course, we'll see how long it takes to close out 8.4. But I think we're in much better shape than we were for 8.3. We're even

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-02 Thread Dave Page
Sent from my iPhone On 2 Nov 2008, at 06:57, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, Robert, Simon, What, are people just on edge because of the US election? It looks to me like the commitfest system is going really well. Of course, we'll see how long it takes to

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:07:13PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 04:21:30PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: It looks to me like there are at least half a dozen patches submitted in the last week that are pretty half-baked and fall into the category of Let's submit

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unofficially, well done to everybody that submitted patches in time for Commit Fest. The queue has grown significantly over last few days and it's clear many people have been working very hard right up to the deadline. Well done? It seems to me that we

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 14:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unofficially, well done to everybody that submitted patches in time for Commit Fest. The queue has grown significantly over last few days and it's clear many people have been working very hard right up

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-01 Thread Emmanuel Cecchet
Tom, Well done? It seems to me that we are right where we hoped not to be, ie with a ton of barely-completed (if not self-admitted WIP) patches dropped on us immediately before feature freeze. Today the commit fest idea is looking like a failure. If you don't want patches coming at given

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Haas
Well done? It seems to me that we are right where we hoped not to be, ie with a ton of barely-completed (if not self-admitted WIP) patches dropped on us immediately before feature freeze. Today the commit fest idea is looking like a failure. If we actually manage to ship 8.4 within six

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 16:21 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: Well done? It seems to me that we are right where we hoped not to be, ie with a ton of barely-completed (if not self-admitted WIP) patches dropped on us immediately before feature freeze. Today the commit fest idea is looking like a

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Emmanuel Cecchet wrote: Tom, Well done? It seems to me that we are right where we hoped not to be, ie with a ton of barely-completed (if not self-admitted WIP) patches dropped on us immediately before feature freeze. Today the commit fest idea is looking like a failure. If you

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Simon Riggs wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 16:21 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: Well done? It seems to me that we are right where we hoped not to be, ie with a ton of barely-completed (if not self-admitted WIP) patches dropped on us immediately before feature freeze. Today the commit fest

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 04:21:30PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: It looks to me like there are at least half a dozen patches submitted in the last week that are pretty half-baked and fall into the category of Let's submit something before the deadline for CommitFest, in the hopes of being allowed

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Haas
Without review, how can we determine the true state of a patch? I would guess that you haven't done a review of all of them yourself to determine that. No, I'm talking about the comments that were made when submitting the patch. A few people said things along the lines of this isn't really

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Haas
Supposing this is true, one way to prevent that in future commitfest-driven releases is to send them back as not ready this time, and tell them they'll be 1st in line in the next go-round. Agreed! But I'll be as happy as anyone if it doesn't come to that. ...Robert -- Sent via

Re: [HACKERS] Well done, Hackers

2008-11-01 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, Robert, Simon, What, are people just on edge because of the US election? It looks to me like the commitfest system is going really well. Of course, we'll see how long it takes to close out 8.4. But I think we're in much better shape than we were for 8.3. We're even in better shape to