Subject: Re: Vote on Omar Design
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
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Date: 19 Nov 2004 13:32:00 -0500
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On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 11:41, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
> > Why do I feel I am in the middle of some political power grab?  Omar has
> > been submitting patches which are being reviewed and getting committed
> > so things seem ok there. I have already laid out a case for problems in
> > Lukacz's design that I don't see anyone interested in addressing, but by
> > the same token I still have not seen a "stretchy" version of Omar's
> > design which we have said we need to see before we can swap. These calls
> > for voting are just hand-waving IMHO.
> 
> I don't think they are hand-waving. I think they are let's get off our 
> butts and get a modern, usable design in place.
> 

Are you saying that Lukacz design isn't an improvement? 

> I also don't think it has anything to do with what people think is or 
> isn't going on in terms of hard work as much as a want to have a new 
> website design in place before 8.0.
>

We already have a new design. 
 
> Basically, all the designs that have been presented are light years (at 
> least the versions I have seen) past what the community has now. They 
> may not be perfect, but so what? Let's get something pleasant to look at 
> in place.
> 

Voting to swap designs (yet again) has nothing to do getting something
new in place.

Robert Treat
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