Thread: Historical post of Marc to support Postgres95 development
Historical post of Marc to support Postgres95 development
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bruc@stone.congenomics.com (Robert E. Bruccoleri)
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+----------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | Phone: 609 737 6383 | | President, Congenomics, Inc. | Fax: 609 737 7528 | | 114 W. Franklin Ave, Suite K1,10 | email: bruc@acm.org | | P.O. Box 314 | URL: http://www.congen.com/~bruc | | Pennington, NJ 08534 | | +----------------------------------+------------------------------------+ On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Chad Robinson wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Jolly Chen wrote: > > > I've posted a TODO list on the postgres95 web site > > (http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres95/www/todo.html) > > I've casually sorted the list by priority and I have some editorial > > comments on some of them. > > > > If all the items on the TODO list were completed, postgres95 would be > > much improved, and would really be a viable replacement for commercial > > RDBMSs in some settings. Some of the items require quite a bit of work > > and deep knowledge of postgres95 internals, though. We would need a few > > contributors with quite a lot of volunteer hours to make this happen > > anytime soon. (A large number of contributors each with only a little > > bit of time to contribute would not be equivalent) > > Some of these things were on my own list to do also. I'd like to start > working on some of them, but the thing is, I'd also like to see a better > distribution form. The last update was several months ago, even though > there are several known `good' patches that need to be applied to fix > various bugs. What are we missing? :-) Do we need a maintainer? We only > have a 28.8 link right now (T1 in a few months) but I'd be happy to provide > at least a basic FTP server with space, and some time to process patches, > updates, and so forth. I can at least be a mirror... > If it helps, I'd be willing to setup a cvs database, including appropriate accounts for a core few developers that patches can go through. >From there, it wouldn't be too hard to do a weekly "distribution" that is ftpable. I don't know enough about the server backend to offer much more then that :( Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org