On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 9:32 pm, Joshua Kramer wrote:
> 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.
Well, not everybody has a commit access and getting patches accepted is not as
easy as it sounds..:-)
Certainly it needs to be made clear, may be someplace else,if not in a press
release.
Shridhar
