On 01/03/2018 03:50 AM, David Rowley wrote: > On 3 January 2018 at 13:12, Patrick Krecker <pkrec...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As a person looking to become a postgres contributor, perhaps I can >> offer some perspective on this. I think there is value in providing >> *some* starting point for new contributors in the form of concrete >> problems to solve. The value I hope to extract from the time spent on >> my first feature comes mostly from the learning experience and not >> from the acceptance of the feature itself. I would not be upset if my >> work was never accepted as long as I understand why. I expect most >> people picking features at random from a TODO list would have a >> similar outlook on their first contribution. > > I agree with this. It was about 10 years ago when I first looked at > the TODO list and thought "I could do that!", so I did. I got lucky > and it was accepted, but without that list, I'd probably never have > written the patch and probably not be here today.
I, too, came in through the TODO list. -- Vik Fearing +33 6 46 75 15 36 http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support
