| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Last gasp |
| Date: | 2012-04-10 16:44:57 |
| Message-ID: | 10987.1334076297@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> ... It's surprisingly easy to hoodwink even
> experienced contributors into thinking that your patch is really,
> really almost done, honest, it just needs a couple more tweaks when in
> fact it's nowhere close. I try not to attribute to bad faith what can
> be explained by incurable optimism, so maybe we just have a lot of
> incurable optimism. But it's doing nobody any good.
The first, and possibly most significant, observation in Brooks' classic
_The Mythical Man-Month_ is: "All programmers are optimists." I don't
think you're going to get rid of the incurable-optimism problem.
Rather, we'd better design around it.
regards, tom lane
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