[Info-Ingres] ingres janitors

[Paul Mason]

Ingres Janitors is less about there being an existing queue of developers
than making sure that as people show interest they aren't turned off and
frustrated by the process. It's about lowering the barriers to entry to
getting involved. So we've talked about providing test suites, as well as
better ways to distribute source, track bugs/changes and so on.

As for effort vs benefit - I think it's going to be a slow process initially
that will gradually snowball. As it does grow it'll take less effort from
IngresCorp to maintain. But some of the things we're doing - like having a
wiki page where people can share tips and gotchas about the build process on
particular platforms - are not a huge amount of effort. But even where more
effort is needed, there is a will to do this because fundamentally we are an
open source company. We haven't always looked like one - partly due to
inertia and the history of having been proprietary, but I think that too
will change.

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Paul Mason
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