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Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

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From: Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>
To: mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>, jm.poure@freesurf.fr, David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-05-02T19:55:49Z
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mlw wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" wrote:
>
> > > BTW, I think PostgreSQL does _not_ need any mission statement.
> >
> > Nope, it doesn't ... never did before, don't know why it does suddenly ...
> > do any other open source projects have one?  Its kinda fun to see what ppl
> > banter around, but I can't see it being useful to adopt any single one,
> > considering I can't see *everyone* agreeing with it ...
>
> We as developers do not need mission statements, per se' but it is often useful
> as something to point to.

    Yupp.  As  PostgreSQL  developers  we are simply committed to
    make commit what others need to commit to PostgreSQL.

    If we ever define something  like  a  mission  statement,  it
    should be named "The 10 commitments" anyway, no?


Jan

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