From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Launching PostgreSQL KB Project Mark 2
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:53:31 -0800
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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.

> Let me put it this way, I have an interest in discussing how the kb will
> be integrated into the main websites, but not much interest in
> discussing how exactly its coded up. That said, it sounds like what you
> need to know first is how it will be integrated into the site, and that
> discussion should probably happen here first *before* you go about
> coding something up and have yourselves painted into a corner.

Actually, I see it as:
1) Functionality Requirements (other list)
2) Requirments Related to Integration (this list)

> They can't read the archives? You can't bullet-point it for them?

To be more clear: Techdocs is not a Knowledge Base.  The previous tread 
discussed re-implementing Techdocs, not a creating a KB,  therefore it is 
not applicable except in a few details where there's overlap.

> 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.

> 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. 

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco