Re: No Issue Tracker - Say it Ain't So!

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, YUriy Zhuravlev <u(dot)zhuravlev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: No Issue Tracker - Say it Ain't So!
Date: 2016-01-06 02:30:00
Message-ID: 568C7C28.3000409@BlueTreble.com
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On 1/5/16 8:19 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Jim Nasby (Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com) wrote:
>> Which doesn't help anyone, because neither of those provide a list
>> of "hey, here's stuff you could do to contribute". The closest we
>> come to that is the TODO, which isn't well known and has almost no
>> items for newbies (and the newbie items that are there don't offer
>> much advice).
>
> Agreed. I've not given up on the bugs.p.o project, but I've gotten
> wrapped up in migrating the buildfarm server on to our infrastructure.
> Hopefully that will be completed as early as this week and I'll be able
> to refocus my infra time to finishing bugs.p.o.

FWIW, I think that's a great example of why we'd be much better off with
a focus on expanding the community beyond code contributors. There's a
couple hundred people on the whole planet with your skill at expanding
Postgres itself and probably millions of people that could work on
infrastructure. Not a great allocation of resources... ;)
--
Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
Experts in Analytics, Data Architecture and PostgreSQL
Data in Trouble? Get it in Treble! http://BlueTreble.com

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