| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists(at)toco-domains(dot)de>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark(dot)cave-ayland(at)ilande(dot)co(dot)uk>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Commitfest problems |
| Date: | 2014-12-19 07:48:18 |
| Message-ID: | 20141219074818.GA6299@alap3.anarazel.de |
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On 2014-12-18 10:02:25 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> I think a lot of hackers forget exactly how tender their egos are. Now I say
> this knowing that a lot of them will go, "Oh give me a break" but as someone
> who employs hackers, deals with open source AND normal people :P every
> single day, I can tell you without a single inch of sarcasm that petting
> egos is one of the ways you get things done in the open source (and really
> any male dominated) community.
To me that's a bit over the top stereotyping.
> However, doing crappy work and let's not be shy about it, there is NOTHING
> fun about reviewing someone else's code needs to have incentive.
FWIW, I don't agree with this at all. Reviewing code can be quite
interesting - with the one constraint that the problem the patch solves
needs to be somewhat interesting. The latter is what I think gets many
of the more experienced reviewers - lots of the patches just solve stuff
they don't care about.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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