[OT] Open Source and my company's web application

[Scott Elcomb]

On 1/24/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:44:31AM -0500, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> > With focused leadership, there's no reason why your organization
> > shouldn't be able to guide the project along.  Every project needs a
> > maintainer, non?
>
> It generally needs someone that cares about it to drive development.
> ANd sometimes to keep feature bloat under control.

To be completely honest, my personal opinion is that "It generally
needs someone that cares" would cover the basic needs of virtually any
project.  More advanced needs, like 'is it practical' make the
difference between a project that "scores" and a project that
survives.

> > You've got the app.  If you give them the source, they will come.
> > Work with your community and provide strong leadership on project
> > matters...  delegate the rewrite tasks --  find ways to let the
> > community help you with your rewrite efforts, while building a bigger,
> > better product and/or service.
>
> It all really depends what business you are in.

Agreed, but regardless of business "type," including your community
makes all the difference in the world.

> > postgres...  people keep saying that.
>
> If you are at it, could you port bugzilla to postgres too.  Then I could
> get rid of the stupid thing entirely. :)  I would prefer everything on a
> nice database.

No! lol.  I've not even used bugzilla yet, though I've certainly seen
once or 3 billiion times.

I certainly do intend to learn enough to at least add postgres support to SAL.

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