> > > However, there was a lot of coordination that happened > with Fujitsu > > > that I don't see happening with the current companies involved. > > > Companies are already duplicating work that is also done by > > > community members or by other companies. > > > > That is why we have 80 Linux distributions and a dozen FreeBSD > > distributions (can I include MacOSX?). > > I guess more aprropriate comparison would be to distibution > specific linux kernels, i.e. RedHat linux kernel vs. suse > linux kernel v.s. > "vanilla" or "real" :) linux kernel.
As someone who has been bitten by the RH vs SuSE vs kernel.org kernel several times over the past couple of weeks, we should *really* try to avoid this as much as possible. It's a *major* hassle for the end user if postgresql is no longer the same as postgresql. Not exactly sure what to do to avoid it, though ;-) Other than encourage the companies that develop extensions to submit these to the community distribution and work to get them accepted there... > > I can see this as an issue but sometimes that community is > a hampering > > course as well. I recognize the community goals and respect > them but > > in some things the community can move really slow. From what I can > > tell some of this is caused by the no new features rules etc... > > > > In business moving slow can mean death to a project. > > > > Which is why (hate to beat a dead horse) many OSS projects > have moved > > to 6 month release cycles. > > Well, it is a two-sided thing. On one hand, businesses > usually need new features "yesterday", but on the other hand, > business would loose most of the benefit of getting the > feature fast, if it is not included in the main branch along > the road, preferrably in the next official release, because > said business would be dependent of the implementor of his > specific feature for integrating _all_ other new and > desirable fetures of next releas in their specific version of > postgres. An example of this might be Powergres - not sure if it was planned to go into community ever, but it must be a pain to maintain the threaded version alongside the main one. I guess that's why it's still based on 7.3... //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly