Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-05-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:21:35PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: If money's not an issue anymore, can we get a bigger box to host pgfoundry on then? :) It's been done and is in the process of being brought up at a new colo facility. There is also a backup b

Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-05-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Regarding the secret code stuff - I predict that it will quickly bite whoever does it, unless they are extremely lucky. Yeah. Bruce and I were worrying about this on the phone today. If a company is doing some work wit

Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-04-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Regarding the secret code stuff - I predict that it will quickly bite > > whoever does it, unless they are extremely lucky. > > Yeah. Bruce and I were worrying about this on the phone today. > If a company is doing some work with t

Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-04-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Any ETA? I don't mean to harp, but it looks really bad when someone new to postgresql comes to investigate something and the site is just crawling. Well the backup should come up in a couple of weeks. I know that the new pgFoundry is being worked on right now. Josh would have a better idea. Sincere

Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-04-29 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:21:35PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > > >If money's not an issue anymore, can we get a bigger box to host > >pgfoundry on then? :) > > It's been done and is in the process of being brought up at a new colo > facility. There is also a backup box being built for f

Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-04-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
If money's not an issue anymore, can we get a bigger box to host pgfoundry on then? :) It's been done and is in the process of being brought up at a new colo facility. There is also a backup box being built for failover purposes ;) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Command Prompt, Inc. --

Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-04-29 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:02:51PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Right now on the front page when we ask for support we are asking for > people to donate money. We don't need money. We need people. The support > link goes to bandwidth but a great deal of the project is hosted over > many, many s

Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-04-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
We'd like to avoid such unpleasant surprises, but how to get the word out? More prominent placement of how to contribute would probably help. The PGF could help with this as well once it is done. Right now it is ether on how to contribute unless you know where to look. Right now on the front pa

Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-04-29 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Regarding the secret code stuff - I predict that it will quickly bite > whoever does it, unless they are extremely lucky. Yeah. Bruce and I were worrying about this on the phone today. If a company is doing some work with the intent that it's a propri

Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-04-29 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > I've deliberately let the dust settle slightly on this. > > One thing that might help is a more open sponsorship "clearing house". > Example (not meant as a bid, but just to illustrate): the JDBC driver > needs a scanner overhaul - it breaks on dollar quoting and a bun

Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-04-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I've deliberately let the dust settle slightly on this. One thing that might help is a more open sponsorship "clearing house". Example (not meant as a bid, but just to illustrate): the JDBC driver needs a scanner overhaul - it breaks on dollar quoting and a bunch of other stuff. I could do that

Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-04-28 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Joshua D. Drake wrote: However, there was a lot of coordination that happened with Fujitsu that I don't see happening with the current companies involved. Companies are already duplicating work that is also done by community members or by other companies. That is bound to happen no matter what. L