Re: Seeking Google SoC Mentors

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Well, here's a question. Given the recent discussion re full
> disjunction, I'd like to know what sort of commitment we are going to
> give people who work on proposed projects.

Um, if you mean are we going to promise to accept a patch in advance of
seeing it, the answer is certainly not. Still, a SoC author can improve
his chances in all the usual ways, primarily by getting discussion and
rough consensus on a spec and then on an implementation sketch before
he starts to do much code. Lots of showstopper problems can be caught
at that stage.

I think the main problems with the FD patch were (1) much of the
community was never actually sold on it being a useful feature,
and (2) the implementation was not something anyone wanted to accept
into core, because of its klugy API. Both of these points could have
been dealt with before a line of code had been written, but they were
not :-(

regards, tom lane