X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3A99DD634; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 20:57:10 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 50714-04; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 20:57:13 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from flake.decibel.org (flake.decibel.org [67.100.216.10]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC789DD5F5; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 20:57:08 -0400 (AST) Received: by flake.decibel.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 13F38152C1; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 18:57:12 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 18:57:11 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Dave Page Cc: Josh Berkus , pgsql-www@postgresql.org, Magnus Hagander , "Marc G. Fournier" Subject: Re: Launching PostgreSQL KB Project Mark 2 Message-ID: <20051207005711.GW16053@nasby.net> References: <200512060916.59696.josh@agliodbs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p10 i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[none] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200512/93 X-Sequence-Number: 9034 On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:36:19PM +0000, Dave Page wrote: > On 6/12/05 5:16 pm, "Josh Berkus" wrote: > > > Well, unfortunately no spec document ever came out of dicussion on this list. > > I've never seen a spec document produced for anything that postgresql.org > has done, on the web side or the backend server. I'm sure some (maybe all) > of the companies involved might produce them for things they work on, but I > never saw anything on -hackers. This is something that may end up changing over time. Companies generally want to know how large a project is going to be (read as: what it's going to cost) before they commit to it, and that generally means having both some kind of requirements doc and design doc. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461