On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Christopher Browne <cbbro...@gmail.com> writes: >> It may very well be *worse* than that; it seems quite likely to me that if >> an issue tracker is not being continually curated by substantially ALL of >> its users, then you don't get any of those things. That *is* a lot more >> pessimistic, and considerably likely, as it's pretty certain that members >> of our email-loving community will decline to get involved in curating >> data in some web app. > > I think this is really the issue that's being studiously ignored by a > number of participants in this thread. Simply installing a tracker > accomplishes diddly-squat. Getting to a point where the information in > the tracker is actually valid, well-organized, etc. will require a LARGE > amount of real work, both up-front and on a continuing basis, and I do not > see where that effort is going to come from. Anybody who thinks it's just > going to happen is living in a dream world. Anybody who thinks they can > tell other people to do it, and then it will happen, is living in an > entire fantasy universe (unless, perhaps, they are paying said people to > do what they want). > I'd be feeling a lot more positive about this whole thread if any people > had stepped up and said "yes, *I* will put in a lot of grunt-work to make > something happen here". The lack of any volunteers suggests strongly > that this thread is a waste of time, just as the several similar ones > before it have been.
Amen. +1. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers