Re: On what we want to support: travel? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Dave Page
Subject Re: On what we want to support: travel?
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Msg-id 455303C3.2050409@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: On what we want to support: travel?  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> Seriously, it shouldn't be *that* hard to find someone to help out
>>> with phpPgAdmin. There are a lot more people capable of
>> writing a PHP
>>> webapp than working on teh PostgreSQL optimizer. (Myself,
>> for example,
>>> but I don't have time to help out with this one - just an example).
>>> Perhaps you should just post something on the frontpage of
>> the phppgadmin page?
>>
>> Admin tools are boring and unattractive to developers - you
>> should know that; look how long it took for me to persuade
>> you to work on pgAdmin.
>
> Yes. But you managed eventually :)
> And really, wxWidgets is also a lot harder than most PHP stuff. Just
> count the bugs I've added to pgAdmin.

Yeah - I nailed a couple more of them the other night. Flippin'
format_type patch <grrr>

> Oh, and also compare it to how much less time it took you to convince me
> to work on the PHP stuff for the website...

I don't think that's so much a language thing - the website is just a
heck of a lot more simple the pgAdmin or phpPgAdmin. That said though, I
can understand that new programmer may be more at ease with PHP than C++.

/D

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