On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Andres Freund <andres@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.
