Re: Democracy and organisation : let's make a revolution in the Debian way

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:33:04PM +0200, Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> Le Jeudi 20 Juin 2002 13:39, Karel Zak a écrit :
> > IMHO there is not problem with organization -- I don't know what do
> > you want to organize on actual number of developers / contributors
>
> My previous e-mail points out several projects where, IMHO, a leadership would
> benefit the community at large :
> - replication,
> - W32 port,
> - marketing (read the post "Read this and puke").

I understend you. I saw a lot of project and ideas, but it
_always_ depend on people and their time. You can organize, you can
prepare cool planns, but don't forget -- in finale must somebody
implement it. Who? I don't know method how clone Tom Lane or get
money for others developers who can't full time work on PostgreSQL
now.

> As for current PostgreSQL organization, can someone explain me which W32 port
> will make its way to PostgreSQL main source code? Can someone publish a

If nobody -- you can test it, make it better and write something
about it. If nobody works on some theme it means this theme is not
important for now. BUT everybody can change it and everybody can
start work on arbitrary TODO item. It seems hard, but it's right :-)

Karel

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