Re: Learning curves and such (was Re: pgFoundry)

Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>

From: Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>
To: Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-05-17T22:04:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 5/18/05, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Brendan Jurd (direvus@gmail.com) wrote:
> > In the interests of putting my money where my mouth is, I would be
> > willing to enlist in the housekeeping effort for this hypothetical new
> > system.
> 
> If you're willing to create it, host it, update it and keep it current,
> and feel it'd be so worthwhile to people that you'd be willing to
> continue to maintain it...  Then go for it.  You don't need anyone's
> approval or even agreement about it.  *That* would be putting your money
> where your mouth is.
> 

I'm detecting sarcasm here, but just in case you're being serious ...

For such a tool to serve its intended purpose, the postgres community
needs to be, to a certain extent, agreed on and aware of its use as
the primary dev management system.

There's no point creating, hosting, updating and maintaining anything
if the community isn't using it.