Re: development questions

Hi!

Dave Page wrote:
>>Heh, I don't think PostgreSQL community will be able to raise
>>*that* much money.
>>But I looked through pgsql-www archives and there were people
>>offering professional design for postgresql.org for free.
>>What prevents you from contacting them?
>
>
> As far as I'm aware in all cases we did, though it may have been
> off-list. Unfortunately many people don't necessarily expect you to say
> "yes please, that would  be great - how do you think you can help?"
>
> Also don't forget that -www has manually approved subscriptions, so
> these offers on the list you speak of must have come from people that
> were already here and helping...

I don't understand you here, please clarify.

Here is a message from Josh Berkus[1] reading:
"Thirdly, and most importantly:   A professional design firm has offered
their pro-bono help with web design (they are PostgreSQL users).   Do we
want them involved in the WWW effort, and if so, how?"

It received the following reply from you[2]:
"I think we need some commitment of the work being undertaken by the
rest of the team first - our major problem seems to be that although
we're all basically enthusiastic, we're all pretty busy. I think the
main priorities right now should be v3.0, but then there is also a new
techdocs site to consider as well. So, Andreas, Michael et al. can you
let us know if you have any sort of roadmap for getting v3 live?"

My experience (4 years, in case you wonder) of web-development tells me
that design issues are pretty orthogonal to programming. And if we (ok,
there is no *we* yet) really want to roll out the next generation site,
the design effort can start in parallel to the programming one right
now. I don't also see how the fact of main developers being busy should
prevent the work of outside contributors from happening.

[1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2003-12/msg00054.php
[2] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2003-12/msg00055.php