Re: commit fests (was Re: primary key error message)

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> If you want an example of something I *do* have a process problem
>>> with, it's Kevin Grittner's attempts
>
>> Hmmm....  Plural?  I've made exactly one post on the subject since
>> the CF started, unless you count review of Markus's dtester code,
>> which he posted before the CF but didn't add to the CF page.  Is
>> reviewing that a process violation?  Or was discussing it before the
>> CF the process issue?
>
> I thought the whole topic should have been held off till after the CF,
> probably till after the bulk of beta testing work is done.  It's a
> sufficiently large and difficult problem that nobody can really give you
> any meaningful feedback without taking more time away from our current
> set of problems than I think is appropriate.
>
> Now your original posts back in December were okay, since you were just
> letting people know that you intended to work on this over a long
> period.  But IIRC you've made more than one post with actual code in it
> that you seemed to be hoping people would review, and that I thought
> was a distraction at this late stage of the cycle.

I actually thought that was a good thing to do, versus developing
totally out of site, though I admit I have had zero time to read the
code, and probably won't for a while.

...Robert