Re: Sixth Draft

I don't understand why people are not happy with just saying "it is the
work of hundreds of developers" or some such paraphrase? Why do we need
to be more specific about the structure of the postgresql development
community?

Robert Treat

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:09, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> "Although there are only a dozen or so developers able to change the main
> source tree, there are over one thousand developers world wide submitting
> and reviewing both bug fixes, and enhancements, to the project"
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Joshua Kramer wrote:
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> >
> > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >
> >> There are currently 1135 ppl on pgsql-hackers ...
> >
> > This brings up a good point, if we say, "over one thousand developers
> > working on Postgresql" then will businesses say, "Wow, there's an awful
> > lot of room for people to insert malicious code!" While it might not be
> > correct, it will give that impression... and, what Simon said about the
> > fact that hundreds of developers submit patches making the
> > patch-acceptance thing secure... that is not clear to someone reading th
> > epress release, and it may open up a whole can of worms if we try to find
> > some way of saying that. Let's just leave it at hundreds of devlopers and
> > stop.
> >
> > --Josh
> >
> >
> >
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