Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org]
> Sent: 06 May 2005 15:35
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; Magnus Hagander; Robert Treat; Tom
> Lane; Josh Berkus; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: RE: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement
>
> On Fri, 6 May 2005, Dave Page wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org]
> >> Sent: 06 May 2005 01:15
> >> To: Magnus Hagander
> >> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; Dave Page; Robert Treat; Tom Lane; Josh
> >> Berkus; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> >> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company
> involvement
> >>
> >> What is being worked on right now is effectively reducing
> >> things down to:
> >>
> >> postgresql-server (including libpq)
> >> postgresql-<insert add on here>
> >
> > So you mean to get an equivalent of postgresql-8.0.2.tar.bz2, I will
> > have to download 30+ tarballs?
>
> Or the WTKS one ... which will exist from day one, but not as
> "integrated"
> as Josh would like us to get to eventually ...

Which will soon bloat to an incredible size as everything under the sun
gets added? A couple of questions though:

- Who/how will the release processes for all these seperate projects be
coordinated?
- How will users be sure that the external projects are of the quality
we expect of PostgreSQL?

Asking as someone who only uses the full tarball and doesn't want the
kitchen sink and half of Gborg as well, please do not get rid of the
current full distribution.

Regards, Dave