[Info-Ingres] ingres janitors

[Grant Croker]

On 16/11/07 12:13, On Web wrote:
> Where is this pool of janitors coming from? Worse still, where are the 
> mentors coming from?
>   
Initially they will come from IngresCorp staffers who have knowledge of
the code area being worked on. As time goes by this would be expanded to
anyone who knows the code area. From my point of view, if you have
rights to submit code to a particular area, say the optimizer then you
are qualified to mentor, if you wish to that is. Even someone who used
to work on the code might be capable of providing guidance, again if
they wish to.
>> So what would you like to see in the code?
>>     
>
> Actually, very little. I think ingres enhancements should be primarily 
> focussed towards allowing the DBMS to interact with other development 
> technologies (I have banged the drum a few times about Ruby) easily, rather 
> than updating ingres with finer points for ingres technologists. Similarly, 
> ingres should be moving to make itself the cheap alternative to it's big 
> brother competitors and take some of the ground between the industry giants 
> and MySQL.
>
>   
Out of interest have you looked at our initial Ruby offering, if you
were aware it was available?
> It's good to see the enthusiasm in your post for ingres, and I see that 
> elsewhere in the regular posters here there are people who are enthusiastic 
> for the intiative.
>
> My problem with the initiative is that it represents a cost to ingres in 
> terms of diverting development effort to support the initiative, which is 
> very likely to give a poor return in terms of ingres development payback.
>   
I think that remains to be seen. It might be better in the short term
for Ingres Corp to implement all the functionality it needs but in the
long term we need to stir up outside interest. As has been alluded to,
the infrastructure we have now for supporting external submissions from
other companies is not up to much, the back of packet of ciggies could
be seen as an improvement. Extending the required infrastructure to
include people who want contribute (in any way) will incur little extra
cost, IMO.

> The world demands that products interwork with each other and software such 
> as ingres is no longer a solution in it's own right (as it used to be) but 
> part of a bigger development pipeline.
>   
agreed
> Paul 
>   
grant

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