Re: [Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] spreading the word on new PostgreSQL software appliance]

"Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Pardon me, but: what the hell? Since when is this page meant to
>> advertise third-party distributions of Postgres, which the community
>> has no control over and hasn't even quality-checked?

> We have done so for years. The origin of each third party distro is
> clearly marked.

Well, I'm still desperately unhappy with the concept that all it takes
to get listed on that page is a request from someone who's not even
known in the community. At the *minimum* we should have some kind of
commitment to push updates promptly (especially security ones) ...
which probably means someone from that group joining pgsql-packagers.

But what might be more to the point is that AFAICT Turnkey is a Linux
distro. We don't have links here to where you get Postgres packages for
Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, etc etc. Why should there be
one for Turnkey?

regards, tom lane