On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 10:04 -0800, Steve Crawford wrote: > Users are, of course, free to use/self-support the software as they see > fit. It's open-source, after all.
I've heard that a lot recently: "It's open source, after all". Is this project not open source any more? Surely this project should be encouraging people within the project to take on new tasks. I don't think anybody should be forced to do anything they don't want to do. So if particular developers want to avoid patching certain releases, I respect that. But I don't see why *this* project cannot allow others to take on the tasks those developers choose not to perform. Why are we forcing people into a position where they have to set up their own independent project, what others would call a fork, in order to support software? Why are we not even willing to ask whether someone is willing? It all seems very strange to me. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
