Re: small but useful patches for text search

Robert Haas escribió:

> I personally think that the way pgsql-hackers organizes itself using
> email is completely insane.

Note that during the 8.4 timeframe we've stolen a lot of work from
Bruce. The TODO list was moved to the wiki, for one; the "patch queue"
was also moved to the wiki. Now the FAQ has moved to wiki (and has
already seen lots of improvement, so it was clearly a good move).
Previously this was all handled as email boxes, so while some
inefficiences in the process still remain, we're a lot better than we
were in the 8.3 cycle.

> Similarly, the only reason we don't have a workable TODO list is
> because you're attempting to extract it from a disorganized jumble of
> email after the fact, instead of maintaining it publicly and adding
> and removing items along the way.

We do have an alternative "open items" list,
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.4_Open_Items
However, it's incomplete. It is a bit sad that nobody can complete it,
because Bruce has taken "pgpatches" out of the air. (Of course, anybody
could go fetch all the pgsql-hackers emails and dig up the remaining
open items to add them there, but that would be duplicative of the
effort Bruce has already put into his own queue).

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