Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Dave Page wrote:

> Yes, but isn't the point of the so-called WTKS to pull in other projects
> like PL/R, libpqxx and a range of other external projects from places
> like Gborg? We have precisely zero control over their quality.

Course we have control over it ... if it isn't up to snuff, we just don't
include it ... its not much different then if we were to pull them all
into our core CVS, but nobody ever tests them when we release ... other
then 'ensuring it builds', unless someone actively tested libpqxx, or
JDBC, or ODBC when they were in our "core CVS", those went out with the
"presumption" of the "same quality as the rest of the code", but they
could have had the biggest bugs in them that nobody would know about ...

> So we could easily end up with one package being included in one
> release, but not the next, then included in the next two, then dropped
> from a couple? Users will go loopy trying to figure that out!

True ... there has to be some sort of decision process for what to include
other then just arbitrarily adding things ... personally, I'm only
currently looking at our current core CVS, with 'external stuff' being
something we *could* do ... some stuff, I'm fairly confident could be
easily/safely done, like JDBC, since those folks are active on these lists
... I don't know if libpqxx folks are around here, but if they were, one
would expect them to make their voice heard ...

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