Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Time to scale up?

>>
>> Well that is a very good point, because I have always considered
>> planetpostgresql not a part of the PostgreSQL project. I hadn't even
>> considered that it is a postgresql project until just now.
>
> Just curious, but why does it have to be *.postgresql.org to be
> considered official? Isn't official what we make it ... ?

Absolutely not (unfortunately). Official is what people "perceive" is
official.

For a case and point, go to http://www.ximian.com or http://www.suse.com
. You will note that they no longer exist and have been absorbed into
Novell.com.

The reason for this is to show an official integration, so that people
are comfortable with the respective brands because they are comfortable
with Novell.

The same applies for our sub projects, until they are recognized under
the official project domain name. They will always be considered third
party.

> The thing is, everyone spends their time putting pgFoundry down as being
> 'second class' ... of course everyone else is going to consider it such
> also ... it isn't second class, nor was it ever meant to be ... if ppl
> promoted, pushed and advertised it more, it would be as 'second class'
> as common to go to as CPAN is for Perl ...

Perhaps the fact that everyone is putting down pgFoundry as second class
is telling to the point that we need to promote it's perception? E.g;
get it under projects.postgresql.org where it really belongs.

And as Alvaro mentioned, the same should go for planet.postgresql.org .

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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