> > >Bottom line is we're not sure what to do now.  Opinions from the 
> > >floor, anyone?

One thing that comes to my mind is, that you (core members) working full
time on PG will produce so much work, that we "hobby PgSQL'ers" will
have a hard job in keeping up to date.

Thus you will have to be nice to us, becoming more and more ignorant.
You will have to understand seemingly dumb, uninformed, outdated  ... questions 
and suggestions :-)

But I trust, your real [business] heart belongs to PostgreSQL, and if there comes 
the time of strong disagreement with Great Bridge, it will be easy for you to find 
a new job.

Congratulations
Andreas

Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:15:48 +0200
Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: [HACKERS] My new job
Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:
> One thing that comes to my mind is, that you (core members) working full
> time on PG will produce so much work, that we "hobby PgSQL'ers" will
> have a hard job in keeping up to date.

When core was first talking to the Great Bridge folks, one of our big
concerns was that a group of commercial developers contributing to the
project would be able to control the direction of the project by sheer
manpower, ie, core wouldn't have time to review their submissions in
any detail.

That risk is still with us, though it looks a little different now that
we ourselves are the commercial developers in question ;-).

I agree with what a couple of people have already remarked: transparency
of decision making is going to be a critical issue in the future.  Each
of us full-timers will have to be very careful to keep pghackers
informed about what we're doing or thinking of doing.  It won't benefit
the project if a few core developers get to work full-time, but everyone
else drops out because they feel they can't keep up or are not able to
make a meaningful contribution.

			regards, tom lane

Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:21:01 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: AW: [HACKERS] My new job 