A small note about the difficulty of managing subprojects

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: A small note about the difficulty of managing subprojects
Date: 2008-10-13 03:12:29
Message-ID: 20834.1223867549@sss.pgh.pa.us
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So somehow I got dragooned into speaking at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop
(which is held only a couple miles from where I live, so it was hard to
say no). A portion of what I had to say was that CPAN seemed to be a
lot better-run than pgfoundry.

So ... I couldn't help noticing that the consensus among the Perl guys
seemed to be that "90% of what is on CPAN is unmaintained crap".
(They agree however that the other 10% is what makes it worth doing; and
furthermore that you can't easily tell which fraction any new project
will fall into.)

Maybe pgfoundry isn't doing so bad after all. Just sayin'.

regards, tom lane

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