On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2016-01-22 08:18:45 -0600, Jim Nasby wrote: > > Personally, I don't see why we have our scarcest resource doing what is > > essentially a project management task, especially when at least one > > commercial company has offered to donate paid staff time. > > Because so far all CFs that weren't managed by somebody involved on the > code level worked even less than the rest. You need to be able to judge > how complex and ready a patch is to some degree. You need to know who to > prod for a specific patch. > > Yes, a PM can learn to do that. But it's not something a freshly hired > person can do. You need a fair bit of community involvement. > I definitely agree. However, if someone were to put forward a person who at least partially qualifies towards that I'm all for giving it a try at least once. But so far I don't recall seeing any actual propsal of that *directly*, more very vague "there are things others could do". But if/when they do, I definitely think it's worth trying. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
