Re: Assisting developers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Assisting developers
Date
Msg-id 200407131829.51492.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Assisting developers  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Assisting developers  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Assisting developers  (Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I am not sure what can be done to solve this in the future.  There
> are only a limited number of us who have the experience and time to
> review and comment on very complex patches.

The issue as I see it is not reviewing patches, but defining features.  
Someone sets out to develop "nested transactions", and three days after 
feature freeze we have the first large discussion about what nested 
transactions really are, what they are good for, and how they should 
work.  Maybe next time think more about the old requirements, design, 
implementation, testing cycle.  Of course people did post plans, status 
updates, etc., but maybe it wasn't enough, not clear enough, or 
something else.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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