Re: A starter task

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 11:28 AM Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me> wrote:

> On 9/16/24 00:17, sia kc wrote:
> > I have a bad experience. I picked up a task from MariaDB backlog,
> > explained in their chat rooms that I started doing that. After it was
> > done which was a SQL command which MySQL already supported to restart
> > server instance with SQL, they started rethinking the validity of the
> > feature for the MariaDB. So the task got suspended.
> >
>
> Unfortunately this can happen here too, to some extent. Sometimes it's
> not obvious how complex the patch will be, the feature may conflict with
> another feature in some unexpected way, etc. It's not like we have a
> 100% validated and agreed design somewhere.
>

> This is why my advice is to pick a patch the contributor is personally
> interested in. It puts him/her in a better position to advocate for the
> feature, decide what trade offs are more appropriate, etc.
>
By picking a patch I assume you mean picking an already done task and
seeing for example how I would have done it, right?

>
> > About inlining not sure how it is done with gmail. Maybe should use
> > another email client.
> >
>
> Can you just expand the email, hit enter in a place where you want to
> add a response, and write.
>
>
Thanks.

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