Re: Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) - PostgreSQL entry - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) - PostgreSQL entry
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In response to Re: Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) - PostgreSQL entry  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 10:02 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
On 2018-10-08 09:58:35 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:51 AM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 5:31 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 2018-10-07 11:15:13 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> >> > > On 7 Oct 2018, at 07:47, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> >> > > I noticed that our dear project wasn't among the projects that have
> >> been
> >> > > evaluated with the CII best practices guidelines.  As I was curious I
> >> > > made an initial attempt.  The MUST requirements for the 'passing'
> >> level
> >> > > largely seem reasonable, there's a few less sane things in the
> >> "higher"
> >> > > grades.
> >> > >
> >> > > https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/projects/2268
> >> > >
> >> > > If anybody here wants to edit that entry, I apparently can add
> >> > > additional users with edit rights.
> >> > >
> >> > > You can click on "Expand panels" and "Hide met & N/A" to quickly see
> >> the
> >> > > things where we don't quite meter up.
> >> >
> >> > Yes, we chose not to join CII after discussions with the Linux
> >> > Foundation. I forget the reasons now - would have to check my archives
> >> > when I’m back in the office.
> >>
> >> The above seems largely unrelated to actually joining the CII?  It's
> >> just a bunch of guidelines you can follow or not.
> >>
> >
> > The fact that the project is now listed on their site and has been scored
> > seems to indicate that someone signed us up.
> >
>
> Yes, and the record pretty clearly shows it's Andres. And he also stated so
> in the first message of this thread :)

Right ;)


Everyone can sign anything up, it's not an "project wide thing" unless
we want to make it such. There could be multiple PG entries afaict. A
friend pinged me, and the list of questions sounded reasonable, and
e.g. reminded me that we should change the password encryption default,
and that certain parts of our "new dev" information isn't great.

If we decide that we do not want that, we can delete the entry, but
somebody can just create it again.  Since the list seems somewhat
useful, I don't see much point in deleting however, especially because
it makes it easier for wrong information to percolate.

I'd definitely say there is value in controlling the information there. At least now we can ensure it is correct, which we cannot if somebody random adds it. We may not agree with all of their criteria, but there's nothing we can do about that other than to write that out in the comments (similar to what you have done so far). That's still better than somebody else just filling out that we don't fulfill something, without an explanation.

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