Re: Learning curves and such (was Re: pgFoundry)
Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-05-17T18:56:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > What's the basis of this objection to a web-based dev management > system? Seems like web-based makes plenty of sense for a physically > disparate development community like this one. I can't speak for the people who don't like web based but my guess is that the web is not their primary medium of communication. Email is. > > It also seems that, once you get it up and running, any worthwhile dev > management system is going to actually take less time / effort to > maintain than, say, maintaining manually concocted todo lists and > coordinating development via a mailing list. This is true or at least, this is my experience but you are not going to convince many people of that. > Call me a normaliser, but even if the maintenance cost is higher, I > think it's worth it to have a centralised, authoratitive, organised > repository for dev task data. I agree. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Your PostgreSQL solutions company - Command Prompt, Inc. 1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Programming, 24x7 support Managed Services, Shared and Dedication Hosting Co-Authors: plPHP, plPerlNG - http://www.commandprompt.com/