From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Seeking Google SoC Mentors |
Date: | 2007-02-27 02:25:51 |
Message-ID: | 45E396AF.40005@commandprompt.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> Well, here's a question. Given the recent discussion re full
>> disjunction, I'd like to know what sort of commitment we are going to
>> give people who work on proposed projects.
>
> Um, if you mean are we going to promise to accept a patch in advance of
> seeing it, the answer is certainly not. Still, a SoC author can improve
> his chances in all the usual ways, primarily by getting discussion and
> rough consensus on a spec and then on an implementation sketch before
> he starts to do much code. Lots of showstopper problems can be caught
> at that stage.
Tom,
Correct me if I am wrong, but would the way that HOT has been handled be
a good way for the SoC people to do things?
Joshua D. Drake
>
> I think the main problems with the FD patch were (1) much of the
> community was never actually sold on it being a useful feature,
> and (2) the implementation was not something anyone wanted to accept
> into core, because of its klugy API. Both of these points could have
> been dealt with before a line of code had been written, but they were
> not :-(
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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