Re: Many comments (related to "Are we losing momentum?")
От | Robert Treat |
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Тема | Re: Many comments (related to "Are we losing momentum?") |
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Msg-id | 1050510115.12855.1344.camel@camel обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Many comments (related to "Are we losing momentum?") ("Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>) |
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Re: Many comments (related to "Are we losing momentum?")
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On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 11:51, Dave Page wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Butler [mailto:robert.butler5@verizon.net] > > Sent: 16 April 2003 16:33 > > To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > > Subject: [HACKERS] Many comments (related to "Are we losing > > momentum?") > > > > > > You > > want a real shocker... Visit the gborg homepage (click the > > gborg link on the bottom left corner of the postgres site). > > Then read the news on the right side of the gborg homepage. > > See that url for http://www.greatbridge.org/ in the > > GreatBridge.Org Version 2.0.0 Release story from way back in > > 2001! Go ahead, visit that URL. What's the first thing you > > see on that page? "Purchase IBM DB2 At IBM.com". Come on! > > Not even a mention of Postgres, and this is right on the > > gborg homepage! > > We don't own that site, and we never did. We did manage to inherit the > projects database through it's key programmer and his goodwill. > Oddly I don't see the link he's referring to, but I've always thought it unfortunate that the postgresql community didn't hold onto those domain names. I was just speaking with a tech writer last night who mentioned how the company that was initially behind postgresql went kaput ("I think it was called great river or something?") Took me a minute to set him straight on that. Anyways, I've offered to look into setting up gforge services in the past as it's a mature project with a good development community and the founder (Tim Perdue) has always been friendly with the PostgreSQL community. Course I don't see this as an immediate need, but long term I think it would be a good idea. > > The firebird, sapdb and mysql sites are > > killing postgres here. The postgres homepage and related > > links is the first thing someone new to postgres sees! There > > shouldn't be news on any of the main pages from back in 2001. > > There isn't. The oldest news is from January 2003. > > Wrt your comments on the style of some of the pages linked off the main > site (the archives spring to mind), if there are any volunteers to help > fix that, please raise your hands because my time is limited and I could > do with some committed help on that sort of thing. > I'm in the process of adding the newsletters to the main page (expect questions your way later today ;-) but once I am done with that "cohesiveness" will definitely be on my radar screen. Robert Treat
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