Re: Time to scale up?

[Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>]

Am Montag, 24. Juli 2006 13:12 schrieb Thomas Hallgren:
> A resolution to the problem would be to allow the core team to scale up.
> More people are needed to support a more comprehensive set of features.
> So why not create specialized teams that are part of the
> core-development trust?

I don't think trust or scaling or implementation languages are the real issue.  
It has been established that for a variety of reasons, smalls tools that can 
be combined work better than one big tool.  That is why the Linux kernel does 
not contain a windowing system.

The issue you are facing is an issue of perception.  There are a number of 
ways to fix that, only one of which is including PL/Java into the PostgreSQL 
source distribution.  I was on the other side of the debate when we kicked 
out the JDBC driver, but today I think this was the best thing that could 
have happened, to both sides.  If you see any measures that we could take to 
make PL/Java look as good in the public eye as the JDBC driver -- certainly 
that is a reasonable comparison -- then I'm sure we can address them.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/