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What does moving to Pull Requests look like? The nginx story

Event: PGConf.dev 2025

Location: Montreal, Canada

Dates: 13 May 2025 – 16 May 2025

Presentation: 15 May 2025

Slides: External slides

Speaker: Alastair Turner

Like Postgres, the nginx open source project ran their own source control systems and accepted patches via mailing lists, until September 2024. At this point, the project moved wholesale to GitHub - issues, discussions, pull requests, the lot. Is there anything from the experience of this very different development community which can inform the discussion around Postgres community tooling? Join me for an summary of the numbers, trends and anecdotes from the first few months of the nginx changes, and a few possible benchmarks to give them some context.

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What does moving to Pull Requests look like? The nginx story

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Alastair Turner

Alastair Turner

Since 1995, Alastair has administered, programmed and supported all things database, from Access to Universe, settling on Postgres around 2002. His particular area of interest is integration between open source software, how open source communities can work together and what they can learn from each other.

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