Re: TODO list (was Re: Contributing with code)

On 01/03/2018 03:50 AM, David Rowley wrote:
> On 3 January 2018 at 13:12, Patrick Krecker <pkrecker(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> As a person looking to become a postgres contributor, perhaps I can
>> offer some perspective on this. I think there is value in providing
>> *some* starting point for new contributors in the form of concrete
>> problems to solve. The value I hope to extract from the time spent on
>> my first feature comes mostly from the learning experience and not
>> from the acceptance of the feature itself. I would not be upset if my
>> work was never accepted as long as I understand why. I expect most
>> people picking features at random from a TODO list would have a
>> similar outlook on their first contribution.
>
> I agree with this. It was about 10 years ago when I first looked at
> the TODO list and thought "I could do that!", so I did. I got lucky
> and it was accepted, but without that list, I'd probably never have
> written the patch and probably not be here today.

I, too, came in through the TODO list.
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