[HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Magnus Hagander wrote: If you change the text file, I will see the CVS update and update the HTML --- I will never lose a change because my CVS sees your changes. That seems like a lot of extra work that should be unnecessary. I asked before for general reactions, so I will now turn that

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Magnus Hagander wrote: Let's move the TODO list to the wiki. We need it to do a few things: o We need to be able to pull a text and HTML copies for tarballs Why? Even if we think the TODO list needs to appear in tarballs (which is hardly a

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Magnus Hagander wrote: Let's move the TODO list to the wiki. We need it to do a few things: o We need to be able to pull a text and HTML copies for tarballs Why? Even if we think the TODO list needs to appear in tarballs

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Personally I think it would be just fine if we had only the wiki copy and forgot about shipping it in tarballs. The problem with not shipping the TODO file at all is that TODO gives users a list of all known bugs/missing features in

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Personally I think it would be just fine if we had only the wiki copy and forgot about shipping it in tarballs. The problem with not shipping the TODO file at all is that TODO gives users a list of all known

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Lane wrote: This seems to me to be nonsense. You've never maintained the back-branch versions of the TODO list, so they're out of date anyway --- ie, they don't account for problems discovered post-release.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dave Page wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Lane wrote: This seems to me to be nonsense. You've never maintained the back-branch versions of the TODO list, so they're out of date anyway --- ie, they don't account for problems

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:10:27 -0400 (EDT) Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a best effort with our limited resources. Should we outsource it? It is user-facing :-p If it was a service we could use for free, we could consider it.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:39:06 -0400 (EDT) Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it was a service we could use for free, we could consider it. https://launchpad.net/ http://www.sourceforge.net/ Those

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:10:27 -0400 (EDT) Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a best effort with our limited resources. Should we outsource it? It is user-facing :-p If it was a service we could use

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:39:06 -0400 (EDT) Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it was a service we could use for free, we could consider it. https://launchpad.net/ http://www.sourceforge.net/ Those are a step backward --- they don't

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian wrote: Probably the biggest missing feature for the TODO is the ability to summarize, group into labeled sections and subsections, and the ability to move items around, with URL links to more detail. Effectively that is all the TODO list is. Oh, like a Wiki page. -- Alvaro

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:32:16AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Personally I think it would be just fine if we had only the wiki copy and forgot about shipping it in tarballs. The problem with not shipping the

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Magnus Hagander wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:32:16AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Personally I think it would be just fine if we had only the wiki copy and forgot about shipping it in tarballs.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: TODO-list on wiki (was: TODO update about SQLSTATE to PGconn)

2008-03-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:10:08PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Magnus Hagander wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:32:16AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Personally I think it would be just fine if we had only