Andrew Dunstan writes:
Your suggestion elsewhere of "pick your second favourite app" is likely
to result in a more scattergun approach. Also, if it had the imprimatur
of the PostgreSQL community to some extent appraoches to projects might
be more welcome - "Dear open-source-project-manager, on behalf of the
PostgrSQL community we would like to offer you assistance in making sure
your application works with PostgrSQL, the world's most advanced
open-source database system...."
The only way someone is going to get work done on a sustained basis is if he's got a personal interest, the so-called "itch". You're not going to achieve anything, except possibly being ridiculed, if you start sending out form letters "on behalf of the PostgreSQL community".
If people already support PostgreSQL to some extent, go there and test it
and send in patches with improvements. If people don't support PostgreSQL
yet, get a good sense for what the feeling of the project maintainers
toward database abstraction layers is, then throw out a design plan. But
the key is to show results, not intentions. That is how open-source
development works.
*shrug*
I'm not sending out anything.
OpenSource works in lots of different ways, in my experience. Some projects welcome all comers, some are very exclusive, for example.
Anyway, in relation to bugzilla, I am working on stuff to submit to them, so I won't be faced with "show me the code" challenges. I nearly have a db-independant table creation module ready, but that will be just a start.
cheers
andrew
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