Subject: Re: Launching PostgreSQL KB Project Mark 2
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
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Date: 02 Dec 2005 16:31:29 -0500
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On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 15:53, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> > Well that's confrontational...
> 
> Well, personally I would have thought it would be obvious why we wouldn't 
> want corporate supporters participating on this list, but you demanded to 
> know.
> 

This is a joke. If you invite all the people on this list to join that
list, you haven't actually prevented the "fragile corporate types" from
interacting with the "grotty techno-luddites" which claim to be so
important. 

As a side note, I'm more than happy to have anyone join this list, it's
one of the reasons I lobbied so hard for us to open it up so many moons
ago. 

> > Which is why I am confused. Should we discuss the requirements here
> > *first*, and then those interested in coding them up can join the
> > project and discuss the details there?
> 
> Integration requirements, yes.  Functional requirements, no.  The 
> functional requirements should be defined by the people who are actually 
> going to develop and/or fund the software.
>

I see where I went wrong, I thought integrating it into the main website
infrastructure was a functional requirement. 
 
> > To do otherwise would seem to add 
> > an a priori condition that we're going to use geviks kb project as our
> > solution before we even have the requirements.
> 
> Per my previous e-mail, that's undecided.   Please read it again and stop 
> jumping to conclusions. 
> 

Clearly I should have understood that if you are leading a discussion
with developers and nebulous sponsors to implement a large website of
postgresql related materials on a third party projects mailing list that
that would be an indication of your openness to everyones ideas on a
software implementation for the postgresql community and would in no way
color the final decisions on the direction things should take. I
apologize for my confusion. 


Robert Treat
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