Re: Update on 'portal' changes

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 14:22, Alexey Borzov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Robert Treat wrote:
> >>>I guess we're still trying to decide if he can save us valuable time :-)
> >>
> >>Ahem. I'd learn that my work is not needed *now* rather than later, when
> >> I've spent more time on it...
> >
> > No, the work is needed now, and quite frankly I have more faith that
> > you'll get it done than I do that we will, at least anytime soon. It's
> > just that we keep going round and round on the whole "working together"
> > thing...
>
> Seems like you are bent on teaching me about how Open Source works once again...
>

I am almost as stubborn a teacher as those students who refuse to learn
:-)

> I already learned that this "working together" thing requires *mutual* desire
> to, uhm, work together. If such a desire is not found on one side, then this
> side can come up with really inventive excuses.
>
> Consider: Marc had some disagreements with me, too. But I already have a
> development server set up at postgresql.org domain.
>
> On the other hand *you* write "I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to giving you
> (Alexy) cvs commit privileges except that you have a tendency to fly off the
> handle that makes me a little bit nervous..."
>

On the same hand... do you think Marc makes his decisions in a vacuum?

> Are you *this* afraid of me defacing postgresql.org?.. ;]
>

not really... after all that's the point of CVS isn't it?

> > a similar issue came up on interfaces, with libtcl. A new guy
> > had a bunch of patches he wanted to submit but the project maintainers
> > had been idle for awhile, so he wanted to take over the project. The
> > admins stated they wanted to stay on, so he forked the project... all
> > bad imho. ISTM that when your new to a project, you should assume that
> > you don't know as much as folks that are currently running things.
>
> Oh, yeah. Reading the current traffic I got the impression that the folks who
> are running things know as little as myself. What's up with techdocs? What is
> this PGFoundry thing? Why is search broken? ;]
>

And some people want us to be even *more* segregated...

Robert Treat
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