Re: merging advocacy and "overview"

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: merging advocacy and "overview"
Date: 2004-12-02 17:18:22
Message-ID: 200412020918.22719.josh@agliodbs.com
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Marc, Robert,

> > > Not sure if I agree with a 'time limit' on this one ... there should
> > > be some sort of 'history' section ... if we are remembering a
> > > contribution, it should be remembered, not 'fade out over time' ...

Well, the main reason I wanted the 3-year limit is that I don't want to try to
research what companies contributed code in 1989. I expect that we'll be
pretty casual about taking companies "off for expiration" -- if we ever do.

> > I think Marc has an interesting point. The other issue is what about
> > companies who may not sponsor a ton of code but troll the mailing lists?

No. Why would we care? Unless you have a different meaning for "troll" than
I do?

> > Or provide major services like hosting?

Yes.

> > Or secondary code like the .Net
> > provider?

Yes, *especially* these.

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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