Re: Fwd: Three weeks left until feature freeze

> Aside from obviously the big issue of who maintains all the pgfoundry
> stuff, I also think that the PostgreSQL family would benefit from a
> distribution that is more "and the kitchen sink" style. I do not know
> exactly if Bizgres could be considered just that? Or maybe it could get
> promoted to be that?

Lukas, that is what www.mammothpostgresql.org is :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> What I mean is I think it makes absolute sense to keep a very stable,
> very well maintained core PostgreSQL distribution which is that anyone
> should base their distributions on. However I do think that PostgreSQL
> is missing out in getting new users aboard that are in the early stages
> of evalutation and simply only consider features that they get along
> with a default installation (mostly due to lack of better knowledge
> about places like pgfoundry). For these kinds of users it would make
> sense to provide a distro that has an extended feature list, while
> sacrificing maybe a tiny bit of stability because it adds modules that
> do not adhere to the same high level of maintaince as PostgreSQL core does.
>
> regards,
> Lukas
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