Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:11:52AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > I thought some people in this group may find this letter from one of > > NetBSD's founders very interesting. > > > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html > > > > It is current, to the point and has some direct correlations with our > > project that we may want to be aware of. > > Nice post, though I don't think PostgreSQL really has many of the > faults he lists. The only obvious one to me is the strong leadership > part, but that's not quite as necessary (I think) because the project > has a clear goal (to a certain extent): SQL compliance. I think the issue is complacent leadership on the one hand, vs. a single forceful leader on the other. I think the best configuration somewhere is in the middle, which is what we have. I don't see how it is related to the OS problem domain. -- Bruce Momjian bruce@xxxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
