Re: Seeking Google SoC Mentors

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.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.

Tom,

Correct me if I am wrong, but would the way that HOT has been handled be
a good way for the SoC people to do things?

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> 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
> 
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