At 6:34 PM +0000 11/16/07, On Web wrote:

If you're running a recent-ish Ingres, you'll have to do:

select xyzzy(1)

Nothing happens, of course. ;-)

Karl

(I'm old enough to remember the entire software department
at On-Line Systems (the timesharing company, not the games
company) ceasing all work for two weeks until advent was
solved. Operations tried to delete the thing but it kept
reappearing, and they finally gave up and just let it
play out... I bet I could still find my way through
part of the maze, at least.)

"Karl & Betty Schendel" <schendel (AT) kbcomputer (DOT) com> wrote

Oops, forgot the parameter!

I suspect that ingres.com has a maze of twisty passages..

LOL

Another task that someone in the community might be interested in would be to
create a Debian package:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401157
which could also find its way into Ubuntu very easily.

Making it compile successfully under recent versions of gcc, if not already
done, would also help.

A Debian and Ubuntu package would help to increase the visibility of the
project. Licencing of the documentation is another issue that would need to be
clarified, I suspect, if Debian free software guidelines were to be met to
allow inclusion of the manuals with the packages.

Just a suggestion from an interested onlooker. The last time I tried, Ingres
failed to compile under gcc 4.1. Debian Unstable is up to gcc 4.2 now.

Jason <jason (AT) jasonjgw (DOT) net> wrote:
I'm pretty sure a .deb install package is being worked on, and that the
latest version of ingres will build with the latest gcc.

--
Paul

Those are both excellent moves in the right direction. Once the dpkg package
exists, getting it into the Debian and Ubuntu repositories so that system
administrators can find and install it easily, would be the next step.

If "Ingres Janitors" is an idea to gather open-source developers around
Ingres products, then I believe Ingres needs to change the process of
development and adopt more "open" ways of development. There is also not
clear (read documented) way of what a person should do in order to
submit a patch.

Correct me if I am wrong, current way is still via e-mail / forum . In
other words a direct contact to some of the developers. Second way is
via development sprints... - Not good at all, IMHO.

If you care about my opinion - put Ingres on github, assign one or few
persons to watch for pull requests, and review them, and naturally,
apply them if they are good. THAT is a modern approach to open-source
development!


--
dejan

Thanks for the suggestion, Dejan. I'll discuss it with the team and get
their thoughts on it.
Cheers
Emma

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If "Ingres Janitors" is an idea to gather open-source developers around
Ingres products, then I believe Ingres needs to change the process of
development and adopt more "open" ways of development. There is also not
clear (read documented) way of what a person should do in order to
submit a patch.

Correct me if I am wrong, current way is still via e-mail / forum . In
other words a direct contact to some of the developers. Second way is
via development sprints... - Not good at all, IMHO.

If you care about my opinion - put Ingres on github, assign one or few
persons to watch for pull requests, and review them, and naturally,
apply them if they are good. THAT is a modern approach to open-source
development!


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