Received: from thing.verysmall.org (thing.verysmall.org [212.100.226.116]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51236475978 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:15:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 40228 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2002 23:16:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iavor) (62.178.43.123) by thing.verysmall.org with SMTP; 16 Jul 2002 23:16:07 -0000 From: "Iavor Raytchev" To: "pgaccess - developers" , "pgsql-interfaces" Subject: pgaccess - registration before download Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:14:14 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-Archive-Number: 200207/94 X-Sequence-Number: 2903 Hello everybody, One idea I want to share and ask for opinions. As pgaccess is about to be released these days as - pgaccess 0.98.8 preliminary release 1 containing all three groups of patches of Bartus, Boyan and Chris, that started the whole effort about four months ago (and some other bugs fixed), I want to ask you what you think of a registration-before-download mechanism on the pgaccess web site. The reason to ask for this is because in a way it is very exciting to work on this project, but I am getting somehow conscious - what is the net effect from inspiring these people (there are about six people dedicated to pgaccess and may be four more who help in one way or another) working on it. What may be we can do in order not to make it more difficult for people who just want to download it fast, is to provide a dual possibility - a] download b] fill in a form before download And ask kindly people to do it the b] way, explaining to them why it is nicer. The b] way might be completely simple - people just enter their e-mail address (as identification only) and fill one text field (or click a check box) with the purpose of the download - end user, tester, developer, second download, etc. It will not give or require password. It might provide also an option (via check box and e-mail that requires reply as confirmation) for subscribing the pgaccess mailing lists. This will provide valuable feedback - we can even make it public - how many users pgaccess has, what they use it for, and this way - show if our effort is worth or are we just having harmless fun :) Everything must be very transparent. All best to everybody, Iavor -- Iavor Raytchev very small technologies (a company of CEE Solutions) in case of emergency - call: + 43 676 639 46 49 or write to: support@verysmall.org www.verysmall.org