Re: Heroku early upgrade is raising serious questions

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)chesnok(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Heroku early upgrade is raising serious questions
Date: 2013-04-09 18:01:32
Message-ID: 20130409180132.GV4361@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Selena Deckelmann (selena(at)chesnok(dot)com) wrote:
> Another important aspect of PostgreSQL is that we are a collective, rather
> than a company. We don't have, for example, a legal entity of record that
> could legitimately accept NDAs on behalf of our developers. (More than one
> vendor brought up "sign an NDA" as a way to get early access, and that's
> not a reasonable option for adding people to pgsql-security or
> pgsql-packagers.)

I wouldn't encourage this- but we do have a legal entity through SPI.
Were we, as a community, open to using 'signed an NDA' as sufficient
trust, using SPI as the entity could work. To be honest, I don't think
that we, collectively, feel that a signed NDA is sufficient.

Thanks,

Stephen

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