Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Bruce Momjian wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
It's pointless to suppose that individual developers would really be
answerable to any project-wide management, since that's not who they're
paid by. So I tend to think that a project roadmap would be more of an
exercise in wishful thinking than a useful management tool. OTOH it
*could* be useful, if there are any developers out there wondering what
they should work on next. Are there any ... and would they listen to a
roadmap if they had one, rather than scratching their own itches?
I would certainly listen to a roadmap if it talked to me ...
I think the longer someone is with the project the more they start
working on what is good for the project, rather than what interests
them. I think we have seen many cases of that.
On my particular case, I generally grab some problem that I perceive as
important and unhandled, and try to do something to remedy it. This is
how I got here in the first place, by fixing some problems in the
CLUSTER implementation. This is how I got to doing shared dependencies,
shared row locks and autovacuum -- neither of them were problems that
affected me in any way. Savepoints were a different matter. I chose to
work on them because Bruce and other people on this list suggested them
to me, back when I was looking for something to do my undergrad project
in.
So yes, I'd probably work on something "the community" considered
important.
heh if this is a request for a wishlist then I would suggest that we
should finally tackle one of the things most databases are doing better
then we (including MySQL) - that is better charset/locale/collate support.
especially for new users or users converting from other database this is
one of the major stumbling blocks (at least as seen on irc regulary)
Stefan
