Re: Pruning the TODO list

On 06/22/2012 09:45 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 22 June 2012 14:15, Robert Haas<robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Rather, we all like to believe
>> that our own ideas are awesome. This is frequently true, but not so
>> frequently as we like to believe.
> Hmm, for me, awesome has nothing to do with it. I strive to produce
> useful features that address real problems in the simplest way. I
> think most of my proposals are fairly obvious to database users. If I
> find a solution, I push it, but not because I found it, or I think its
> awesome.
>
> The idea that I'm scratching my own itches is mostly wrong. For me,
> this is about working on the features that Postgres needs and then
> doing them, with a sense of urgency that seems to be slightly ahead of
> the curve.
>
> It's not just reviewers that work hard on tasks they may not be
> interested in yet believe are for the common good.

That's true of many developers.

I think the real problem with the TODO list is that some people see it
as some sort of official roadmap, and it really isn't. Neither is there
anything else that is.

cheers

andrew