> At 08:11 24/03/2006, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > have found out today that there is another Ingres mailing list besides > > info-ingres at cariboulake.com / comp.databases.ingres, see here: > > http://opensource.ingres.com/projects/ingres/lists > > > > What do you think: is it really a good idea to split the small Ingres > > community into several pieces (keep in mind that there additionally is > > a web-based Ingres forum now...)? > > I think it stinks and said so quite a long time ago. We don't have an > Ingres community yet, and having three or four splinter groups ensures we > never will. As far as I am concerned comp.databases.ingres is > technically the best and most versatile medium, with the largest > number of informed contributors. The other forums are dominated by > people asking (and repeating) fairly elementary questions which I just > can't be bothered to answer because the web-based format is so > laborious and cumbersome. c.d.i. also has an archive of over 35,000 > articles. > > I think you are spot-on Gerhard. Let's petition to get all the traffic > at least mirrored on c.d.i. I know there are people who can't get an NNTP > feed but Google Groups carries c.d.i just fine. > > Roy Hann (rhann at rationalcommerce dot com) > Rational Commerce Ltd. > www.rationalcommerce.com
Hi Roy, Gerhard, I'm coming back to the Ingres community after having left Ingres Corp when CA bought the company. I went to the 30th Anniversary party two nights ago and had a blast, and the Ingres Corp 2.0 people encouraged me to become active once more. So, here I am, but where is everybody else?! I was SHOCKED to see so few posts over these several years that are archived. Your conversation was some months ago and I'm wondering: where _should_ I sign up? Where _is_ everybody?! ...I STRONGLY agree that the community should not, must not be fragmented if it is to survive... Boy, the Postgres guys sure are active! SURELY the Ingres community is bigger than these few archived posts would suggest! Even if there are multiple forrums, let's publish (get Ingres Corp to publish, as necessary) where to find the corpus... So, POINT ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, PLEASE! Thanks guys, Richard -- Richard Troy, Chief Scientist Science Tools Corporation 510-924-1363 or 202-747-1263 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://ScienceTools.com/ _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ingres.com/mailman/listinfo/users
