Re: [HACKERS] SAP and MySQL ... [and Benchmark]
От | Dennis Gearon |
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Тема | Re: [HACKERS] SAP and MySQL ... [and Benchmark] |
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Msg-id | 3EE8B149.8080107@cvc.net обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: [HACKERS] SAP and MySQL ... [and Benchmark] (Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>) |
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Re: [HACKERS] SAP and MySQL ... [and Benchmark]
(Ian Linwood <ian@dinwoodie.freeuk.com>)
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Список | pgsql-general |
I'm not THAT familiar with recent developer history, community, or model for Postgres. I do see two individual's names aLOT on this listserve, and they really contribute a lot and guide a lot of us. Bruce is one, and Tom Lane is the other. I think that Postgres's inertia is vulnerable to one of them dying. Hopefully youtwo guys, that is a long ways away! But I know of a OSS PHP project where the main guy died young in a motorcycle accident,and the last I heard, there was little progress in the project in a year's time; The project might be dead. I think that the two main guys should keep a list of their references they use (DB theory, architecture planning, differentoptimizer theory, etc.), the roadmap for next 1-2 years, anything else that would help the group 'if a bus hit them'. But, like I said, I'm not too familiar with the development community itself. I'm just relating to the trend I see here inthe general list. Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:40, Justin Clift wrote: > >>Bruce Momjian wrote: >> >>>I assume we don't want to mimick FreeBSD's infighting. >>> >>>I don't have any problem with doing voting, but I will say that the >>>stated PostgreSQL core leadership goal, "to do as little as possible", >>>has served us well. > > >>Or not. > > > Each Open Source project has its own personality. I often use PostgreSQL as > an example of a well-run OSS project; I do believe that the current model is > working well. > > I understand some of the concerns with the current model. However, this > database started as a research project, was picked up by a couple of students > and SQLified, then was picked up by a core group of its users who were > interested in making it better. And make it better they did! (with help of > course). Prolific developers have since been added to the core group. > > This model has gotten us this far very well; and I don't think a fundamental > change in it is necessary to take us to the next level. > > Or, to put it another way, we have a minimalistic 'government'. Some people > like that; others do not. Just as in the 'real world'. The user base, > moderated by core, makes the decisions -- I believe that is as it should be. > Somewhat like cadmium in a nuclear reactor. (:-)) Core prevents a meltdown, > and lets the reactor hum at a nice pace. > > We want marketing? The someone steps up to the plate and markets (which has > happened). We want funding? Then some of our users need to step up to the > plate and do some funding. (which has also happened). > > To borrow from another projects model, no one is asking Linus Torvalds to > accept a voted-in core team for the Linux kernel. He is also one who governs > as little as possible. > > We're not commercial software; why must we act like commercial software?
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