Re: Pruning the TODO list

On 21 June 2012 15:00, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
>> On 21 June 2012 08:30, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Nonetheless, it would be a good idea to prune the TODO list regularly,
>>> such as after a release.  We used to do that a bit, not so much lately,
>>> perhaps.  But everyone is invited to contribute to that.
>
>> The idea is to remove contentious issues from the list, to avoid the
>> waste of time.
>
> The thing is, a lot of stuff gets punted to the TODO list *because*
> it's contentious, ie there's not consensus on what to do.  If there
> were consensus we might've just done it already.  I'm not sure we want
> to remove such entries, though perhaps somehow marking them as debatable
> would be a good thing.
>
> There may well be stuff on the list that is no longer very relevant in
> today's world, but somebody would have to go through it item by item
> to decide which ones those are.  I'm not volunteering.

<smiles> Understood

I'll have a play. Maybe I should just go with the idea of "Simon's
TODO List" - stuff I personally think is worth working on, and leave
it at that.

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