Re: [HACKERS] Official adoption of PGXN

On 2/14/17 2:19 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> One part of this would need to be having a designated committee of the
> Postgres community pick a set of "blessed" extensions for packagers to
> package.  Right now, contrib serves that purpose (badly).  One of the
> reasons we haven't dealt with the extension distribution problem is that
> nobody wanted to take on the issue of picking a list of blessed extensions.

That was my idea behind "all other official extensions live at <insert 
git URL here> / <list of URLs on PGXN.org>".

Adding some kind of reputation system to PGXN would probably be even 
more useful, but I certainly don't think that's mandatory for having 
officially blessed "core extensions".
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