Re: pgFoundry
От | Greg Stark |
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Тема | Re: pgFoundry |
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Msg-id | 87wtqbti6s.fsf@stark.xeocode.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: pgFoundry ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>) |
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Re: pgFoundry
("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
Re: pgFoundry (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>) Re: pgFoundry ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>) |
Список | pgsql-hackers |
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes: > >>No that is public presentation of the project not project development. > > I don't see that people are going to be able to participate in development > > if they don't use the mailing lists. > > I am not arguing that but public mailing lists are no place to track status of > sub projects or tasks. They are for discussion. What does it mean to "track" the status of something? How would the status change except by discussion? What would be the point of announcing the status of something without allowing people to comment? I think you have a severely flawed idea of how free software development proceeds. What you're describing sounds like something a manager of a commercial project would want. Perhaps it's something the managers of the people working on Postgres on behalf of some corporate sponsors might want but in those cases I doubt they would want the information to be public anyways. In the free software world there's no top-down management of the project with managers issuing direction and expecting feedback reports. People only want tools that make their lives easier. Not tools that make other people's lives easier at the expense of their own convenience. The programmers are not beholden to any corporate interests (other than their own sponsors, who presumably are getting all the feedback they're looking for privately). I'm rather surprised Postgres doesn't have a good bug tracking system. That's something most projects find pretty essential. Strangely enough the reason seems to be that Postgres really doesn't have many bugs... Unlike web browsers or GUIs or most of the other free software projects out there, databases don't tolerate bugs well. Any serious bug is cause for an immediate point release. The only use for a bug tracking system would really be for tracking all those pesky "IWBNI" bugs that never rise to urgent status. But "tracking the status" of sub-projects is just not the kind of thing free software people do. They send emails when they have something to say. -- greg
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