Re: Sixth Draft

While I like your wording re: who can change the source tree, I think we
need to step back and ask a philosophical question: what is the purpose of
this press release?  To attract new users.  Does talk about who can commit
to the source tree create a compelling reason to use PostgreSQL over the
alternatives?  I don't think it does.  There's also the issue of word
count; IIRC Josh Berkus said he wanted it around 1000 words, and last time
I counted it had about 1800.  I think we should leave out the details
about who commits, and just say that it's a BSD license (and explain what
BSD license entails).

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> "Although there are only a dozen or so developers able to change the main
> source tree, there are over one thousand developers world wide submitting
> and reviewing both bug fixes, and enhancements, to the project"
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Joshua Kramer wrote:
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> >
> > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >
> >> There are currently 1135 ppl on pgsql-hackers ...
> >
> > This brings up a good point, if we say, "over one thousand developers
> > working on Postgresql" then will businesses say, "Wow, there's an awful
> > lot of room for people to insert malicious code!"  While it might not be
> > correct, it will give that impression... and, what Simon said about the
> > fact that hundreds of developers submit patches making the
> > patch-acceptance thing secure... that is not clear to someone reading th
> > epress release, and it may open up a whole can of worms if we try to find
> > some way of saying that.  Let's just leave it at hundreds of devlopers and
> > stop.
> >
> > --Josh
> >
> >
> >
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