Robert Haas wrote: > I personally think that the way pgsql-hackers organizes itself using > email is completely insane. The only reason that you need to write > the release notes instead of, say, me, is because the only information > on what needs to go into them is buried in a thicket of CVS commit > messages that I am not nearly brave enough to attempt to penetrate. I > suggested putting them in CVS yesterday; Tom didn't like that, but > what about a wiki page or a database? grep 'release notes' > /last/six/months/of/email can't possibly be the best way to do this. > Given any sort of list to work from, even one that is totally > disorganized and written in broken English, I can't believe this is > more than an hour or two of work, and I'd be more than happy to take a > crack at it (I'm probably not the only one, either).
Let me just add, as a way of macro-understanding our approach to development, that the Postgres community has always been set up to get the maximum feedback from the community, even if it sometimes increases the work required by a few core folks to keep things going. So some of the things we do that seem inefficient are done because many feel a more structured approach would limit our ability to harness the strengths of our community. For example, moving to a bug tracking system would make some things much easier, but would probably dampen our momentum. Handling discussions via web forums instead of email would probably have the same effect. Of course, I might be wrong, but that is what many in the community think. I think the example of moving the TODO list to a wiki, that was supposed to relive a lot of the burden I carry to maintain the TODO list, has really not affected my workload much, which kind of reinforces the feeling that our existing setup is probably the best we are going to do. Of course, the commit fest wikis have helped, so I guess there is room for improvement in some places. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
