Re: beginning hackers

IMHO (as a wanbe pgsql hacker) it is more important to mark tasks as
suitable for beginners, if they do not require in depth knowledge of
the pgsql codebase, and not
according to how easy they are in other terms.
for example If a task requires a significant amount of new non trivial
code which has little to
do with existing code and is just plugged in one little place, I would
consider this
task suitable for beginners, as I do not assume beginner pgsql hackers
are incompetent
or even inexperienced programmers they are simply to pgsql.

Meir

On 8/24/05, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> 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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