On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 01:11:21PM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Jun 4, 2015, at 11:53 AM, Neil Tiffin <ne...@neiltiffin.com> wrote: > > > I have looked at PGXN and would never install anything from it. > > Why? Because it is impossible to tell, without inside knowledge > > or a lot of work, what is actively maintained and tested, and what > > is an abandoned proof-of-concept or idea. > > Well, you can see the last release dates for a basic idea of that > sort of thing. Also the release status (stable, unstable, testing). > > > There is no indication of what versions of pg any of PGXN modules > > are tested on, or even if there are tests that can be run to prove > > the module works correctly with a particular version of pg. > > Yeah, I’ve been meaning to integrate http://pgxn-tester.org/ results > for all modules, which would help with that. In the meantime you can > hit that site itself. Awesome work by Tomas Vondra.
Giant +1 for this. I had no idea it existed until this morning. As a PGXN contributor, this kind of feedback is invaluable to me. > > There are many modules that have not been updated for several > > years. What is their status? If they break is there still > > someone around to fix them or even cares about them? If not, then > > why waste my time. > > These are challenges to open-source software in general, and not > specific to PGXN. The pgxn-tester system answers more of that question than a lot of other projects do. At some point, each organization using software, free or proprietary, open source or closed, has to do some of their own vetting. > > So adding to Jim’s comment above, anything that vets or approves > > PGXN modules is, in my opinion, essentially required to make PGXN > > useful for anything other than a scratchpad. > > Most of the distributions on PGXN feature links to their source code > repositories. Should this just be made a hard requirement for PGXN? Lack of a source code repo is a pretty good sign of abandonment. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
