Re: Launching PostgreSQL KB Project Mark 2

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:jim(at)nasby(dot)net]
> Sent: 07 December 2005 00:57
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Josh Berkus; pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org; Magnus Hagander;
> Marc G. Fournier
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Launching PostgreSQL KB Project Mark 2
>
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:36:19PM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> > On 6/12/05 5:16 pm, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > > Well, unfortunately no spec document ever came out of
> dicussion on this list.
> >
> > I've never seen a spec document produced for anything that
> postgresql.org
> > has done, on the web side or the backend server. I'm sure
> some (maybe all)
> > of the companies involved might produce them for things
> they work on, but I
> > never saw anything on -hackers.
>
> This is something that may end up changing over time. Companies
> generally want to know how large a project is going to be
> (read as: what
> it's going to cost) before they commit to it, and that generally means
> having both some kind of requirements doc and design doc.

Absolutely - I'm quite familiar with the commercial development
practices (at least as practiced in my little corner of the world).

My point is simply that we haven't ever done that yet for the core
server, so why should we have done for a website project discussed some
months ago?

Regards, Dave.