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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:16:54 -0400
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 9:38 AM Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with you, but I'm skeptical that solving it will be as easy as
> switching to Python. For whatever reason, it seems like every piece of
> infrastructure that the PostgreSQL community has suffers from severe
> neglect. Literally everything I know of either has one or maybe two
> very senior hackers maintaining it, or no maintainer at all.
...
> All of this stuff is critical project infrastructure and yet it feels like
> nobody wants to work on
> it.
I feel at least some of this is a visibility / marketing problem. I've not
seen any dire requests for help come across on the lists, nor things on the
various todos/road maps/ blog posts people make from time to time. If I
had, I would have jumped in. And for the record, I'm very proficient with
Perl.
Cheers,
Greg
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