Re: You could be a PostgreSQL Patch Reviewer!

Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> Thursday 16 of June 2011 06:14:13
> On 16/06/11 04:49, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > We especially need folks who are able to build PostgreSQL on Windows, as
> > we have several Windows-specific patches and no reviewers for them.
>
> Urrrrrrrggh. Does that mean I have to volunteer myself? ;-)
>
> I kind of regret learning to develop on Windows, because I find it a
> horrid environment*, but so does everybody else, most of whom have been
> clever enough not to learn it. They can say "I don't know Windows" and
> they're safe.
>
> Any chance of flagging patches on the commitfest when they're platform
> specific? I'm hurting for time but will check out Windows-specific stuff
> if it's an area the project particularly needs help with.
>
> * Except for Visual C++'s debugger, which is a godsend, and so good it's
> almost worth learning to code on Windows to use. I will never use gdb
> for c++ again given the choice. gdb is a C debugger with bizarre
> delusions that it's also a C++ debugger. Most of my C++ code is
> cross-platform primarily so I can code on Linux, interactively debug on
> Windows, and use Linux for valgrind memory debugging.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer

I may try to review this patches about XML & XPATH (as I know(n) something
about XML):
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=565
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=579

Regards,
Radek