Re: beginning hackers

Thanks, added. I think numbering them is too complicated.

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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:09:10PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > > Can someone turn these items into a "beginning hacker's TODO" as has
> > > been discussed before? Or find a way to mark them on the main TODO?
> > >
> > > If someone wants to tell me how this should be done and give me whatever
> > > files need to be changed I'd be happy to submit a patch.
> >
> > Sure, submit a diff against doc/TODO and mark them with something like
> > %.
>
> Here's my stab at marking items. I picked items that I thought would
> either be well-contained or that would be pretty straightforward. But
> since I'm not very familiar with the code itself a lot of these could be
> way off-base. I tried to err on the side of marking things that might be
> boarderline since presumably it's easier for someone to see a marked
> item and veto it rather than look at the entire list and try and find
> new items. In any case, it wouldn't hurt for someone to make another
> pass after this is applied and look for easy items that I missed.
>
> BTW, while I was doing this it struck me that it might make sense to
> have a difficulty ranking of, say 1-5, instead of just marking beginner
> items. Thoughts?
> --
> Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com
> Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com 512-569-9461

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