Re: Contributing code

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:46:52AM -0700, Don Y wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> >On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:12:05PM -0700, Don Y wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Is it possible to have one of my user defined data types
> >>reviewed/critiqued to see if there are things that I am
> >>not doing properly? Or, other things that I should be
> >>including? Or, should I just contribute it and hope
> >>for the best? (if so, how do I do that?)
> >
> >Put it on a website somewhere and link to. Interested parties could
> >then look at it...
>
> An associate pointed out the obvious: let it run in production
> for a few months; that will find far more *realistic* issues
> than a casual inspection would! (Gee, does he distrust my
> code? :> ).
>
> So, I'll deploy them and get feedback on which features I
> may need to add (some of the data types are probably a bit
> too exotic for most users). I figure I can always contribute
> them just before a release...

Well, in the meantime, if you plan on making it public anyway, why not
put it on pgFoundry so that others can poke at it now if the wish? It
wouldn't surprise me if right now someone is going "I wish there was
something that would let me do..."
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