| From: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Catalin Iacob <iacobcatalin(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, YUriy Zhuravlev <u(dot)zhuravlev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: No Issue Tracker - Say it Ain't So! |
| Date: | 2016-01-07 00:44:37 |
| Message-ID: | CAM3SWZRQGTuCOhze8SNnYm24T8C2Bv1vGqb4wnK09qwQC+69kQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Yeah. The other problem is that stuff that's actually small doesn't tend
> to hang around undone for long, so there's not really a broad array of
> stuff just waiting for someone to have a little time. If we had a more
> actively maintained TODO list, it would largely contain (a) stuff that
> there's insufficient consensus on, and (b) stuff that's just big mean and
> nasty to implement.
I think that some friendly advice to less experienced contributors
about a good project for them to work on is enormously valuable, which
is why I try to do that whenever I can. Unfortunately, and perversely,
the TODO list is pretty far from that. Things go on the todo list
because they don't have a favorable cost/benefit ratio. I wouldn't
suggest a project to anyone that I would not be willing to work on
myself, which excludes most items on the TODO list.
--
Peter Geoghegan
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