[Info-Ingres] ingres janitors

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"Roy Hann" <specially at processed.almost.meat> wrote in message 
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>> My criticism of the janitor initiative still holds and I only hope I'm 
>> wrong about it. If nothing else, a few of it's advocates are certainly 
>> more fired up than they were when they got up this morning!
>
> You do realize the Apprentices/Janitors program was initiated by the 
> community?
>
> I am the acting chairman of the UK IUA and I had already made it an 
> objective that the IUA would encourage Ingres Corp to get busy with this. 
> When I saw Mark Winston's suggestion (Mark is in the U.S.) I took it to 
> Emma McGrattan, and she seized it and took it to her management.   This is 
> not top-down.
>
> Top-down is what we had till two weeks ago.   What you are seeing today is 
> exactly what you are asking for: grass-roots developers in the wild taking 
> an initiative.
>
> Please join us.

Roy,

I spent over two years working full time on ingres ports and patches (err.. 
6.x..) and I can't see myself going back there - I have too many other 
things to do and I know just how involved that code is. It's been ten years 
(or more) since I invoked a C compiler!

You're completely right - I hadn't realised which way this initiative had 
been born. You guys may surprise me yet!

I really do admire your spirit.

Have a good weekend.

Paul

> Roy