On 4/18/11 10:57 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > So first of all, no it's not fixable with sed. But secondly, writing > "*please*" here seems to evince a level of frustration which is > entirely out of proportion to the really rather mild comments which > preceded it. What made you write it that way?
I'll admit that the conversation I'd had at the Drizzle BOF the previous night strongly influenced me. > to this continual commentary that we > are not nice enough to people, especially newcomers. Well, OK, maybe > we're not. But you know what? We're trying really hard, and getting > accused of being nasty when we actually weren't is kind of a tough > pill to swallow ... But > in this case I think you were too quick off the trigger Well, my apologies to you. You are probably correct. In any case, I think the answer to this is constructive; better documentation and tools to let submitters get their code into good shape in the first place so that we don't have discussions about formatting. That way we waste *neither* the reviewers' nor the submitters' time. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
