Re: 8.2 features status

> What this story does do for me is reinforce the notion that it's
> critical for newbie developers to work "in the open", getting feedback
> from the lists at an early stage about what they are doing.  If you go
> off in a corner and develop a patch for a TODO item, you risk having it
> rejected because you misunderstood what the TODO item was about.

I 100% agree with this. Newbie developers should be in the open and it 
kind of lends itself to my Mentors idea that I mentioned previously.

The problem I see is that even if they are in the open we make it fairly 
difficult to get the information they need to get started.

> 
> Maybe the connection is that while thinking about processes, we need
> to take into account the need to encourage people to get early
> feedback about what they are considering doing.

Agreed.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 


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