From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200402180357.i1I3vZK02711@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Need new project admin for unbundled Tcl interface
In-Reply-To: <20040217230736.Q793@ganymede.hub.org>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:57:35 -0500 (EST)
Cc: L J Bayuk <ljb220@mindspring.com>,
 Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@yahoo.com>,
	pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, L J Bayuk wrote:
> 
> > I offered to take over the Gborg pgtcl project because I thought nobody
> > wanted it. It seemed stalled, having made no releases since beta3 in
> > November 2002, no CVS updates since January 2003, and no progress on the
> > reference manual. I assumed the project admins had moved on to other
> > things and would be glad to turn it over.
> >
> > The response I got was no, they don't want to give it up, but I could
> > join and get CVS commit rights. Not good enough, unless there are going
> > to be releases. I'm not hearing that there will be releases.
> 
> If there have been no commits to the gborg version in almost a year, what
> would a new release be based off of?  What I'm really curious of is why
> the patches to -core didn't get into gborg ... IMHO, the current gborg
> seems to have gone 'stale' :(
> 
> > I really don't want to antagonize anyone, but I think a project fork is
> > in order. I'll put my version into a new project, and we'll see what
> > happens.
> 
> Well, that works too ... since I know the gborg version is not in sync
> with the -core version, and since I think that bringing gborg in sync with
> -core would be confusing at best ... if you can create the project, I can

Why confusing?  Add core changes to gborg, remove the core version, and
submit patches to improve the gborg version.

> copy the current CVS files (with history) from -core to gborg ... I really
> don't want to lose the changes/history over the past year ...

If you submit changes, there will be a release and it will start to
move.  Making a new project just so it is new really isn't going to add
much.

As for why the core changes didn't make it into gborg, few realized
there was a gborg version because there was still a version in core CVS.

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