Re: Companies Contributing to Open Source

Guido Barosio wrote:
> <quote>
> "Companies often bring fresh prespective, ideas, and testing
> infrastucture to a project."
> </quote>
>
> "prespective" || "perspective" ?

Thanks, fixed.

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> On 12/21/06, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
> > >>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 6:13 PM, in message
> > <200612200013(dot)kBK0Dui20431(at)momjian(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian
> > <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > > if the company dies, the community keeps going (as it did after
> > Great
> > > Bridge, without a hickup), but if the community dies, the company
> > dies
> > > too.
> >
> > This statement seems to ignore organizations for which PostgreSQL is an
> > implementation detail in their current environment. While we appreciate
> > PostgreSQL and are likely to try to make an occasional contribution,
> > where it seems to be mutually beneficial, the Wisconsin State Courts
> > would survive the collapse of the PostgreSQL community.
> >
> > While I can only guess at the reasons you may have put the slant you
> > did on the document, I think it really should reflect the patient
> > assistance the community provides to those who read the developers FAQ
> > and make a good faith effort to comply with what is outlined there. The
> > cooperative, professional, and helpful demeanor of the members of this
> > community is something which should balanced against the community's
> > need to act as a gatekeeper on submissions.
> >
> > I have recent experience as a first time employee contributor. When we
> > hit a bump in our initial use of PostgreSQL because of the non-standard
> > character string literals, you were gracious in accepting our quick
> > patch as being possibly of some value in the implementation of the
> > related TODO item. You were then helpful in our effort to do a proper
> > implementation of the TODO item which fixes it. I see that the patch I
> > submitted was improved by someone before it made the release, which is
> > great.
> >
> > This illustrates how the process can work. I informed management of
> > the problem, and presented the options -- we could do our own little
> > hack that we then had to maintain and apply as the versions moved along,
> > or we could try to do fix which the community would accept and have that
> > feature "just work" for us for all subsequent releases. The latter was
> > a little more time up front, but resulted in a better quality product
> > for us, and less work in the long term. It was also presumably of some
> > benefit to the community, which has indirect benefit to our
> > organization. Nobody here wants to switch database products again soon,
> > so if we can solve our problem in a way that helps the product gain
> > momentum, all the better.
> >
> > I ran a consulting business for decades, and I know that there is a
> > great variation in the attitudes among managers. Many are quite
> > reasonable. I'm reminded of a meeting early in my career with a
> > businessman who owned and operated half a dozen successful businesses in
> > a variety of areas. He proposed a deal that I was on the verge of
> > accepting, albeit somewhat reluctantly. He stopped me and told me that
> > he hoped to continue to do business with me, so any deal we made had to
> > benefit and work for both of us or it was no good at all; if I was
> > uncomfortable with something in the proposal, we should talk it out.
> > That's the core of what we're trying to say in this document, isn't it?
> > The rest is an executive overview of the developer FAQ? I can't help
> > feeling that even with the revisions so far it could have a more
> > positive "spin".
> >
> > -Kevin
> >
> >
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