Re: Change the name
От | Greg Sabino Mullane |
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Тема | Re: Change the name |
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Msg-id | a8beeb567e2ed9f290596d0b9300b745@biglumber.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Change the name (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>) |
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Re: Change the name
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Список | pgsql-advocacy |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Josh Berkus writes: > What are you planning to ask -general, exactly? > > Unless it's a call for volunteers, anything you ask -general at this point > will be nothing but a straw poll. You can't even regard it as a vote, > because the folks on -general don't have enough information to make an > informed decision. I see -general as our user base, not as a bunch of uninformed 'folks' who wouldn't know advocacy from a hole in the ground. This is supposed to be a transparent project, and something like this should be put to the community at large. The most effective way we have to do that right now is the - -general list. Consider it a way to talk to the community, and see if anyone has any pros and cons that this list may not have thought of yet. > I've been waiting for the main proponents of changing the name to step up > and do that research. This will be a good litmus test of whether those > people will actually follow through to do the work required to change the > name. So far, I've seen nothing but e-mail posts. You are presupposing that your list of "research/work required" is the same as everyone elses, especially those in the "Postgres" camp. I, for example, have always advocated a gradual approach - a FAQ item, a news release, and we're done. Graphics, etc. can come at their own pace. The project has been living on two names for a long time now (more, if you count all the misspellings), it can surely survive with the same top two names swapped in officialness for a little while. Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Probably not. Consider the number of projects out there with odd names > that are doing just fine. Are they doing fine _despite_ their name? Let's be really honest, which project has a worse name than ours? > I still say we need to focus on our core strengths, the "Name" isn't > relevant in that argument. Instead of expending energy on that, we > should expending energy on doing everything we can to: > > Get windowing queries running ... > Seriously, let's focus on something really important versus something > that has zero technical ballast. It's not a zero-sum game. Certainly the number of people who can work on windowing queries are a very small percentage of our community. Nobody is advocating that we stop Tom and Simon from coding and make them recreate our handful of graphics. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200709141356 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFG6s1YvJuQZxSWSsgRA6FwAJ4zPNesRevBXuZ2ehO/v4fK/KeejACcCbzs O+rd+rEHGwhPO/i15MHyBZE= =0aVO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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