Re: Learning curves and such (was Re: pgFoundry)

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:04:51AM +1000, Brendan Jurd wrote:
> On 5/18/05, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> > * Brendan Jurd (direvus(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> > > In the interests of putting my money where my mouth is, I would be
> > > willing to enlist in the housekeeping effort for this hypothetical new
> > > system.
> >
> > If you're willing to create it, host it, update it and keep it current,
> > and feel it'd be so worthwhile to people that you'd be willing to
> > continue to maintain it... Then go for it. You don't need anyone's
> > approval or even agreement about it. *That* would be putting your money
> > where your mouth is.
>
> I'm detecting sarcasm here, but just in case you're being serious ...

I don't think Stephen was being sarcastic. Such a system would need an
enormous bootstrap effort. Once it's in place, and having shown its
usefulness, maybe the community would start using it.
(Of course no one can make promises on that other than for himself.)

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