Re: Proposing WITH ITERATIVE

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:49 AM Jonah H. Harris <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:33 PM David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Have the authors agreed to make it available to the project under a
>> compatible license?
>
>
> If there’s interest, obviously. Otherwise I wouldn’t be asking.
>
> I said from the start why I wasn’t attaching a patch and that I was seeing
> feedback. Honestly, David, stop wasting my, and list time, asking
> pointless off-topic questions.
>

Jonah,

I see it the other way round—it could end up as a waste of everyone's time
discussing the details, if the authors don't agree to publish their code in
the first place. Of course, it could also be written from scratch, in
which case I guess someone else from the community (who haven't seen that
private code) would have to take a stab at it, but I believe it helps to
know this in advance.

I also don't see how it "obviously" follows from your two claims: "I've
found this functionality" and "I'll clean-up their patch and submit", that
you have even asked (or, for that matter—found) the authors of that code.

Finally, I'd like to suggest you adopt a more constructive tone and become
familiar with the project's Code of Conduct[1], if you haven't yet. I am
certain that constructive, respectful communication from your side will
help the community to focus on the actual details of your proposal.

Kind regards,
--
Alex

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/coc/