Re: Time to scale up?

["Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> 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.

One thing that has been talked to death many times, but nobody ever seems 
to come up with a solution to, is pgFoundry, and how badly it is 
advertised / promoted ... so software packages over there seem relegated 
to a sort of 'no mans land' ...

I was just thinking of it, and kinda surprised nobody else has ... why not 
add a section to http://www.postgresql.org's main page for it?  We have 
two sections now: Latest News and Upcoming Events ... why not add a third 
one under that includes Latest News from pgFoundry?  that way, when a 
release happens, or project is added, its very prominently displayed on 
our main page?

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