Re: Bug tracking (was Re: +/- Inf for float8's)

Vince Vielhaber wrote:

> Could it be possible that folks are shying away because of having
> to install and learn an entire webserver and tools and then the
> bug tracker on top of that?

And so the solution is to build a totally new system?

Coming from the Postgres team, this is relatively surprising. Postgres is a great
tool. I dropped Oracle and learned Postgres because I thought it would eventually
become a better tool, and because it was already better in many ways. It took
time and effort to do so, but eventually it was the right thing to do because I
can now make full use of a very powerful open-source database.

It seems to me that the whole point of Open-Source vs. Not Invented Here is that
you are *supposed* to go out and make the effort necessary to learn new tools
that can then become extremely useful. If you accept the attitude of "it's not
Apache/mod-perl so I'm not using it," then it's time to stop all criticism of
those who use MySQL, Oracle, Windows, etc... Those people are *used* to their
technology, and the only reason they refuse to switch is that they don't want to
spend time learning something new.

Just my 2 cents.... the useful tools are not always the ones everyone is using.

-Ben