Re: Change the name - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Change the name
Date
Msg-id 200709141817.l8EIHlf19020@momjian.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Change the name  (Chris Travers <chris@travelamericas.com>)
Responses Re: Change the name
List pgsql-advocacy
Chris Travers wrote:
> IMO, certain decisions, such as name changes, should not be made
> democratically.  They should be made by the body which is responsible
> for governing the project (though democratic feedback can and should be
> a part of the process).  *If* the core team wanted to endorse such a
> name change, then there would be a call for volunteers.
>
> So here is my only concern:  If the project changes names, it is going
> to require a lot of grunt work.  We do not want this work to cause
> delays in future versions of the software.  In my estimation, this may
> draw out the transition time by months or even years.  However, this is
> not a bad thing because it means that there is greater community
> awareness that the change is happening and more time to transition the
> advocacy efforts.

There seems to be a lot of valid concern about having manpower for this.
I am willing to take the lead and form a team to accomplish this goal if
we decide we want it.  I did the Win32 port so this should be doable.

--
  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. +

pgsql-advocacy by date:

Previous
From: "Greg Sabino Mullane"
Date:
Subject: Re: Change the name
Next
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: Change the name