| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: EOL for 7.4? |
| Date: | 2009-11-03 18:35:50 |
| Message-ID: | 1257273350.13207.5612.camel@ebony |
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On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 10:04 -0800, Steve Crawford wrote:
> Users are, of course, free to use/self-support the software as they see
> fit. It's open-source, after all.
I've heard that a lot recently: "It's open source, after all".
Is this project not open source any more?
Surely this project should be encouraging people within the project to
take on new tasks. I don't think anybody should be forced to do anything
they don't want to do. So if particular developers want to avoid
patching certain releases, I respect that. But I don't see why *this*
project cannot allow others to take on the tasks those developers choose
not to perform. Why are we forcing people into a position where they
have to set up their own independent project, what others would call a
fork, in order to support software? Why are we not even willing to ask
whether someone is willing? It all seems very strange to me.
--
Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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