X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D049FA3B3 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 15:23:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04673-08 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 15:23:20 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B7B9FA22C for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 15:23:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4JINIU8002870; Fri, 19 May 2006 14:23:18 -0400 (EDT) To: Josh Berkus cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, Michael Dean , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Toward A Positive Marketing Approach. In-reply-to: <200605191018.00798.josh@agliodbs.com> References: <446CD9F3.9020100@sourceview.com> <200605191018.00798.josh@agliodbs.com> Comments: In-reply-to Josh Berkus message dated "Fri, 19 May 2006 10:18:00 -0700" Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:23:18 -0400 Message-ID: <2869.1148062998@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200605/96 X-Sequence-Number: 9035 Josh Berkus writes: > Other projects need even more intensive coding help. OpenOffice, for example, > doesn't offer the Postgres driver by default because it's still too buggy. That seems like something that it'd be worth our while to help fix. Does anyone have a handle on what the problems are? Is it something that could reasonably be fixed by a Postgres person, or is the real problem that it'd take a whole lot of both OO-fu and Postgres-fu? If so, can we find someone with the former nature to collaborate with? regards, tom lane