Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> Do we want to consider adding in a "mirror" of the JDBC/ODBC stuff in
> the same way? Based on the direction we are taking, I'm all for it ..
> the idea being that when beta starts, the JDBC folk (or ODBC, or ?)
> would submit a mega patch to be applied to the tree and tag'd in with
> the rest of it, and beta distribution copies built up ... development
> of the various drivers would remain on gborg/pgfoundry where they are
> now, all we'd have in our CVS would be 'the released version' ...
>
>

This is just a horrible horrible idea. Code needs to have one
authoritative home. I know the dreadful fate of Cassandra, but please
think very carefully about this. The "mega patch just before release"
would bite quite horribly. I have had to manage projects where we had to
sync between repos - even in a much smaller more manageable commercial
environment it sucked badly, and we quickly abandoned it.

cheers

andrew