[Info-Ingres] Ingres Janitors

[Karl & Betty Schendel]

At 8:54 PM +0100 10/26/07, Roy Hann wrote:
>"Mark R. Winston" <winstonmr at datavailable.com> wrote in message
>news:mailman.23.1193421512.18164.info-ingres at kettleriverconsulting.com...
> > I think Ingres Corp., and the INGRES community, would receive a lot of
>> value from a similar format, however, it would require Ingres Corp. to
>> expose said bugs to the Janitors and then integrate the fixes into the
>> code base.
>>
>> I tried to start this with the nycingres users group but it was
>> passively killed by Ingres Corp.  Any chance we can call it forth from
>> the grave, not just for nycingres, but in-general?
>
>I want to get the UK Ingres user association to do more to promote community
>development projects.  In my new role as acting chairman I've asked Marty
>Bowes to be our "Community Projects Czar".   I'm really taken with your
>suggestion above because most of us have day jobs or other limitations that
>would prevent us taking on a major project but as you point out there is
>probably lots that we could do for our own amusement or convenience, and in
>principle it could relieve other developers.


So far, the main problem seems to be the lack of resources on
the Ingres Corp end, perhaps combined with a fair bit of inertia.

Datallegro has attempted to contribute a fair number of fixes and
enhancements to Ingres.  (That doesn't just mean me, either!)  Some
of the fixes have made it into the mainline, after various fits and
false starts.  For pure bug fixes we've been trying a new procedure
that has been working better:  namely, sending the specific fix
to the appropriate person in Level 2.  I don't know how well that
would translate to an Ingres Janitor feed, but it might.

If Ingres Corp can't pry the time loose, there is some slight
chance that I might be willing to act as a gatekeeper, at least
initially while volumes are low.  We'd need some sort of public
repository and I'm not sure how to work that.  It would be
better for changes to flow directly into Ingres Corp, but they
need to get themselves un-stuck before that will work.

Karl