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	pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Re: PostgreSQL vs Oracle vs DB2 vs MySQL - Which
 should I use?
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:29:14 +0900
From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
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> >> ... I wonder whether this is an inbuilt,
> >> unavoidable problem with free software projects once they reach a certain
> >> level of popularity.
> 
> > Funny you should mention PHP.  I talked to Rasmus about the email volume
> > when I first met him in the fall.  He said the volume of email is so
> > great that just reading the subject lines takes a long time.
> 
> > We aren't there yet, but we are heading in that direction.
> 
> Yes, the shape of the curve is pretty clear --- it's already not
> possible for the key developers to respond to everything, and that'll
> get worse.  We have to start thinking about ways to spread out the load
> better.

One idea is encouraging people to make local mailing lists all over
the world. That will be easier to read/write mails for non-English
speakers and will decrease the traffic in the main mailing
list. Actually I have been running a mailing list in Japan for years
and now it has +4000 subscribers. I believe this kind of thing has
been already done in the world (maybe Japan, Russia ...?), but I think
we should encourage them more, like having pointers to such lists on
the pgsql web site.
--
Tatsuo Ishii