On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 13:22 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Dave, > What I'm getting from your e-mail, Dave, is "If it doesn't solve all > problems for everyone in the world from Day 1, it's not worth doing."
I doubt that is Dave's intent because then we might as well stop work on PostgreSQL too. > David's proposal is designed to be something which he can get done *this > year*, possibly before 8.5 is released, and be built on later. It'll be > useful to a substantial number of our users, and will be an improvement > on what we have now. > I say if Wheeler wants to do it, he should do it and stop quibbling with the rudiments of the Org opinion. Guess how many people have opinions? Buildfarm succeeded because someone stepped up, evaluated, took a little feedback and ran with it. He didn't screw around waiting for everyone to be happy. So +1 on Wheeler's idea. Joshua D. Drake > --Josh Berkus > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
