On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 03:33:20PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > On 10/06/2015 10:57 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: > > >On 10/06/2015 10:17 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > >Speaking of which ... this project is rich in skilled users who are > > >involved in the community but don't code. Bug triage is exactly the > > >kind of thing very part-time community supporters can do, if we make it > > >easy for them to do. > > > > That is an understatement. There is a huge pool of non-hackers that can > > help contribute to this sort of thing. > > It was said, way back when, "adding Windows support will add a huge pool > of Windows-only developers". I'm not sure that the impact was really > all that big there. We have a few Windows-enabled people, but how many > of them are Windows-only? > > We similarly said, "moving the TODO list to the wiki will add a huge > pool of users that cannot edit the current CVS-only file". To date, > most of what has happened is that the old items have become stale and > Bruce continues to do 99% of the work of maintaining it. > > So I am dubious that people that currently do not contribute will > contribute in the future just because we change the system.
Agreed, though that did work for the commitfest --- I almost never deal with those patches, for good and bad. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Roman grave inscription + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
