Re: Contributing with code

Sorry, but I did not want to start a flaming war against the TODO list with
my first message. In all the other open source projects I have contributed
code, the TODO list is always a start point to newcomers. There's no
explicit message in the Postgresql TODO list saying that the projects there
are hard, stuck or undesirable. So it's very confusing to a newbie who just
want to help and try to learn something in the process.

And now I don't know If I should continue to work on the issue on my first
message and post my ideas on the list, or if I should find other ways to
contribute, for example, fixing bugs from the bug list.

Regards,
Antonio Belloni

Atenciosamente,
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2018-01-03 0:47 GMT-02:00 Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>:

> Noah, all,
>
> * Noah Misch (noah(at)leadboat(dot)com) wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 05:52:37PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > On 12/31/17 22:43, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > > > I'd rather rename it the "stuck, hard and abandoned projects list"
> ;)
> > >
> > > That might actually be useful.
> >
> > +1. When I do refer to a TODO entry, it's usually because the entry
> bears a
> > list of threads illustrating the difficulty of a problem. I like the
> project
> > having such lists, but "TODO" is a bad heading for them.
>
> Renaming the list is certainly an idea that I could get behind, though I
> agree with Chris that we could keep it a bit more positive. I also
> agree that the TODO list tends towards projects that are stuck and hard,
> which is why I actually think it wouldn't be that hard to go through and
> mark the really hard things as really hard or even create an independent
> page for them as I suggested elsewhere on this thread, because (at least
> from my perception of it- which could be wrong) the overall list
> doesn't actually change that much (see above wrt "stuck, hard and
> abandoned" comment). If we could see our way forward to really making
> it clear that these things are stuck, hard or abandoned then maybe we
> can make room for new projects to go on the list that are of reasonable
> size for newcomers to the project.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephen
>