Re: Change the name - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy
From | Bruce Momjian |
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Subject | Re: Change the name |
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Msg-id | 200709141640.l8EGeO302537@momjian.us Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: Change the name (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>) |
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Re: Change the name
Re: Change the name |
List | pgsql-advocacy |
Josh Berkus wrote: > Bruce, > > >>> I believe the next step we discussed was to get feedback from the > >>> 'general' email list. Correct? > > Wrong. Completely and totally wrong. Are you trying to throw up roadblocks? That is my analysis. I was just suggesting we ask the general list. Now maybe if you said I was "100% wrong" I would think twice, but for "completely and totally wrong" I think I will just barrel ahead. ;-) You stated: > There's particularly no point in doing a survey of people's uninformed > opinions about the issue; community members need to see a cost-benefit > analysis *first,* not after a vote. Seems we have cost/benefit list already. Based on your list below I think asking 'general' should be done before "Poll non-users to find out if name has any effect on adoption" because unless we are more serious about the change no one wants to do more work. I realize some people are trying to minimize the work involved, but some are trying to maximize it too. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Look at the amount of stuff on that page which is listed as "more > information needed": > > =========== > Need an inventory of graphics containing "PostgreSQL" > Poll non-users to find out if name has any effect on adoption > Poll corporate supporters > Check with press contacts / analysis on likely press reaction > Poll downstream projects on reaction to name change > Poll regional/language groups & packagers > Check for legal issues > Detailed listing of all materials which need changing. > =========== > > While some of this could wait until after we decide to change, some of > it absolutely cannot. We could easily discover that most of our > corporate supporters oppose the change, the distros will hate us, press > reaction would be bad, and that there are numerous legal issues ... in > which case the name-changing idea is dead no matter what the folks on > -general think. > > Please stop thinking of the name change as something to be done over an > idle weekend, and start thinking of it as a major feature like WAL, > Schema or HOT. It's going to require just as much work, if not more. > > I'll also point out that not one of the people who said they'd "do > whatever it takes" has yet stepped forward to research any of these topics. > > > --Josh Berkus > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
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