Re: Intention to start an [oauth] "working group"

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM Jacob Champion
<jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I can't really guess how well these will work within our community. So
> I'd like to propose an experimental working group covering the new
> OAuth code.

Sounds like a good experiment to me.

> = What does that mean? =
>
> "Working group" probably carries a bunch of baggage as a term (and
> honestly, I wouldn't mind a better suggestion). I want something
> lightweight, so here's what I propose to do:
>
> - I will add "[oauth]" to feature threads I start, so people can filter on it.
> - I will add an "[oauth]" tag to the CF app.
> - I will attempt to keep a living summary on the wiki for every
> [oauth] feature, including ones started by other people, with some
> inspiration from my favorite parts of the Python PEPs [2].

All of those ideas make sense. I had suggested to Andres that we add
an AIO/DIO CF tag to the CF app because many of the sub-projects he's
working on for AIO are not obviously related (e.g. adding a different
kind of buffer locking). If people want to get their head around what
work needs to be done for the feature, it can be difficult.

I haven't followed oauth development enough to know if all related
threads and CF entries are more obviously related, but it seems like a
good idea for big multi-release projects to bucket their work somehow
for ease of consumption of those less in the weeds.

- Melanie