| From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Albert Cervera i Areny <albert(at)nan-tic(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: next CommitFest |
| Date: | 2009-11-13 13:34:53 |
| Message-ID: | 937d27e10911130534j24ce4532sb1ad55b024c3e990@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Requiring people to write docs or any other patch submission rules has
> never been counterproductive. People could easily say, "English is not
> my first language, therefore I skip all comments and docs". But they
> don't, because we require that, as a hard rule. Nobody has ever said
> enforcing *those* rules is counter productive.
Requiring that someone document their own work is very different from
requiring that they spend time reviewing someone elses entirely
unrelated work, possibly in areas of which they have little or no
understanding (which may well be an issue at times).
--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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