Rudy Lippan wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, David Wheeler wrote: > > > I think that part of the misunderstanding comes out of the different > > cultures of the PostgreSQL and Perl communities. The PostgreSQL > > developers have no maintainer, no Pumpking, no Poobah. They work > > together on issues that interest them, come to consensus, and then > > commit changes. This is the kind of approach that Bruce wants to > > encourage for DBD::Pg development, in part to get away from DBD::Pg's > > historically slow development under a single developer who might lack > > the time to respond to patches and get out new releases.* > > > > This sounds very unperllike to me, and, of course, DBD::Pg is a perl > module.
Well, if your single-maintainer perl-like way hasn't worked well in the past, you may went to reconsider that approach. I don't see why you would want to bottleneck the whole thing in one person when you can have a group leveraging their talent/time. > Maybe we should let Tim decide if we should have a maintainter in the perl > community? > > And besides has Jeffrey Baker officially abdicated? As it seems that you > have responded to the problem that he was having viz., about not being > able to conatact any of the PostgreSQL developers. I think Jeffrey had the reverse problem of what you are seeing, that the DBD:pg guy wasn't involved in the PostgreSQL development process, and hence didn't receive patches submitted to PostgreSQL patches list nor subscribe to any of our email lists where he could discuss things. The goal now is to have a group that stradles dbi-dev and PostgreSQL lists and have the group work in a more coordinated fashion. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
