Received: from golem.jpl.nasa.gov (IDENT:root@hectic-1.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.68.203]) by hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA21944 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:43:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu) Received: from alumni.caltech.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by golem.jpl.nasa.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA27744; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:42:57 GMT Sender: tgl@mythos.jpl.nasa.gov Message-ID: <369CBF00.407680B1@alumni.caltech.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:42:56 +0000 From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" Organization: Caltech/JPL X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.30 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brook Milligan CC: clark.evans@manhattanproject.com, pgsql-hackers@hub.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] RPM maintainer? References: <369C1B97.76AB3501@manhattanproject.com> <369C375F.567141E5@alumni.caltech.edu> <199901131520.IAA25293@trillium.nmsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Does this mean that we should consider maintaining other packaging > systems, e.g., the pkg systems used by FreeBSD/NetBSD/... ? I have no > idea if there is interest among the "normal" maintainers of those > things, but I suspect that like all of us they have too many things > going on also. I'm not certain about all of them, but for example someone (Oliver?) maintains a Debian package for Postgres. Distribution packages are always a good idea and helpful to some folks. We have no normal maintainers in my experience. However, anyone interested in maintaining packages would be welcome to join us as another abnormal maintainer :) - Tom