Re: [pgadmin4] Priorities of features

Hi

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Joao De Almeida Pereira <
jdealmeidapereira(at)pivotal(dot)io> wrote:

> Hi Hackers,
>
> After the last month or something that I came back to this project I
> noticed that we put a lot of effort in making all these shortcuts
> configurable.
> But I do not understand the driver for this push.
>
> Do we have people complaining about the lack of shortcuts?
> Are people complaining about the Key Combinations that we selected?
> Do we have a clear idea of what the people that use pgAdmin want?
>
> I would love to understand the driver for this. There is already a lot of
> code done for this, I know, but in my mind there are much more pressing
> issues in our code and feature wise that we need to address like:
> - Code maintainability
> - Continuous Integration
> - Continuous delivery, more frequent releases in a automated way
> - What happens when you have 500 tables
> - What happens when you have 500 partitions in tables and so on.
> - We need to understand what the Users from pgAdmin need
>
> I would love to hear from the community to understand if we are creating a
> product that is easy to use for them and that brings them value. Also we
> need to grow the developer community for pgAdmin and that only happens when
> the application is maintainable and uses patterns that people understand
> easily without having to do hours and hours of code archeology to add a
> feature that is a bit more involved.
>

We (EDB) have legal obligations in some countries to ensure software we
supply is accessible to all users - not to mention that it's just good
practice to do so. We have users that need this so that's where we've been
focussing some of our efforts for a few sprints.

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