Re: Increased company involvement

[Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> I've deliberately let the dust settle slightly on this.
> 
> One thing that might help is a more open sponsorship "clearing house". 
> Example (not meant as a bid, but just to illustrate): the JDBC driver 
> needs a scanner overhaul - it breaks on dollar quoting and a bunch of 
> other stuff. I could do that work (as could others, of course) but I 
> don't have time, unless someone buys some of my professional time. 
> Someone might want to do just that, but how would they find me?
> 
> Regarding the secret code stuff - I predict that it will quickly bite 
> whoever does it, unless they are extremely lucky.

Let me add that we really do want these companies to succeed.

For me, it is all a matter of meeting the company's expectations.  If a
company wants to add a closed-source feature to PostgreSQL, that's fine,
but if they work on a features and eventually want it integrated into
the main code, I don't want that to fail and have them be disappointed. 
The same goes for duplicated effort --- if they don't wnat it to happen,
I want to help them prevent it.

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