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 g...@2ndquadrant.com 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

Re: [HACKERS] new CommitFest states

2009-12-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com 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

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 Robert Haas
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com 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

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

Re: [HACKERS] new CommitFest states

2009-12-14 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com 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

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 Robert Haas
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Itagaki Takahiro itagaki.takah...@oss.ntt.co.jp writes: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us 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

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 altogether