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In response to Re: A starter task  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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So isn't there something like Jira backlog to manage the tasks?

My plan is to do some really small tasks like adding an option to a command but aim for harder ones like optimizer stuff.

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 00:14 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> writes:
> I think you can take a look at https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo and
> see if there's a patch/topic you would be interested in. It's really
> difficult to "assign" a task based on a single sentence, with no info
> about the person (experience with other projects, etc.).

Beware that that TODO list is poorly maintained, so items may be out
of date.  Worse, most of what's there got there because it's hard,
or there's not consensus about what the feature should look like,
or both.  So IMO it's not a great place for a beginner to start.

> FWIW, maybe it'd be better to start by looking at existing patches and
> do a bit of a review, learn how to apply/test those and learn from them.

Yeah, this is a good way to get some exposure to our code base and
development practices.

                        regards, tom lane

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