Re: Re: "open source"

27 Февраль 2003 09:05, George Schlossnagle написал: > I know you're not new to oss development. I can't believe that you > could walk onto the postgres list with this attitude and get things > committed. Of course I am not new to oss development, this is just another FUD piece that was thrown at me. Its good that you remembered Postgres: its development goes forward so well because its developers focus on adding things instead of preserving the Sacred Backwards Compatibility. There are drawbacks, like you should be insane to upgrade a production system to a new major version without testing it first, but still Postgres is the best open source RDBMS. And no, I never had to use this kind of attitude on Postgres mailing lists, but thats because I've yet to see its developer "reviewing" the patches for 5 months and/or saying something other than "thanks" on patch proposal (of course, the patch can be rejected later if it's not good enough). I did use similar attitude when I was translating phpBB, by the way. The developers were all English-speaking and did localization stuff in such a way that it was impossible to translate it. After it was pointed out to them (not only by me) they re-did it and everything went OK. That's the difference: either the developers want to get the job done and endure the attitude, or they don't want it done and pretend to be deeply offended.