Re: State of Beta 2

On Saturday 27 September 2003 09:45 pm, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >$$$ -- I wasn't looking to purchase a programmer. :-)

> Well sometimes it takes money to get things done. Personally I don't see
> a big need
> for pg_upgrade but there was enough people making noise about it that it
> made sense
> to make the proposal. Several people did come back and offer to cough up
> a little bit
> but not enough to get the project done.

I could always forward you my fan mail (context for the following message is
that I was extolling the group of people that help me build the various RPM
sets as an example of how backports of Fedora Core packages could be done to
'Fedora Legacy' stuff (many thanks to those who help me, BTW.)):

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Re: I volunteer
From: Chuck Wolber <chuckw(at)quantumlinux(dot)com>
To: fedora-devel-list(at)redhat(dot)com

> I as PostgreSQL RPM maintainer for the PostgreSQL Global Development
> Group do something similar to this using a loose group of volunteers.

<TROLL>
Ahhh, so you're the one. Perhaps you could write a postgreSQL RPM with
upgrade functionality that actually works?
</TROLL>

-Chuck

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