Re: New PGXN Extension site

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:25:33PM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jun 15, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > This was just posted to announce. Seems the community now has to
> > compete with another extension-based infrastructure if we ever get
> > around to developing one of our own.
> >
> > I personally had no knowledge of this, which is fine, but don't expect
> > me to get excited about it, except to consider it a threat to a
> > community-lead extension site.
>
> This *is* for the community, Bruce. There was extensive discussion of my original proposal back in January:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org/msg143645.html
>
> I welcome all contributions from the community. I want it to be a success for PostgreSQL. But note that it doesn't have to be started as a -hackers project (any more than pg_upgrade did). CPAN, for example, was created because Jarkko had an itch. He scratched it. I'm doing the same here.

One issue that will come up: this is clearly a more commercial
enterprise than Jarkko's CPAN (and the internet is a different place
than it was in 1995) You pushed money right to the front with this, so
that will lead to certain questions concerning ownership of what
arguably should be community resources: the IP of the aggregate index,
for example.

I'm a big believer in JFDI as well - just be aware that toes will get
stepped on, and require some bandages.

Ross
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