Forum OpenACS Q&A: OpenACS nspostgres

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Posted by Roberto Mello on
Kris posted a message asking where to find a working nspostgres since the one in the AOLserver tree is broken. I pointed him to openacs.org and this is his reply:
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:10:52 -0500
From: "Kriston J. Rehberg" 
Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] nspostgres
To: AOLSERVER@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

So, like, should I just delete it from aolserver.com and point
everyone to openacs.org?  You guys are really on the ball.  Not sure
if you still wanted to use Source Forge CVS for it.

Kris
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Posted by Don Baccus on
Well, I personally want absolutely nothing to do with Kriston, who, in the immortal words of Jerry Asher, "sucks".  That's why I decided not  to pick it up when he asked if Lamar or I wanted to take over nspostgres for the AOLserver releases.

So ... having him point people to our version is probably the best thing to do.  We'll make sure ours keeps working, more people will be exposed to OpenACS, and I won't have to deal with Kriston - sounds like one small corner of a perfect world to me!

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Posted by Lachlan Myers on
Given there are various broken versions of nsopenssl around ... could we perhaps also pick up this? IMHO OpenSSL fits the OpenACS beautifully.
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Posted by Charlie Black on
Don,

Why the hostility with Kriston? OpenACS depends on Aolserver, is there something prospective OpenACS users should know about the relationship with Aolserver?

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Posted by Don Baccus on
How's that old saying go, something about one bad apple spoiling the
barrel or something like that?

There's no problem with OpenACS vs. AOLserver per se.  One person,
unfortunately the guy who works for AOL who is supposed to be
coordinating the AOLserver open source development effort, has been
slowly alienating a whole bunch of people, and a couple of us happen
to be involved with OpenACS.

Read my response to the thread regarding the future direction of
OpenACS for a little more detail on this exchange between Kriston and
I.  Just in case you don't, at minimum be aware that I'm not on the
aolserver mailing list, and I didn't post to the list.  I posted
privately to Kriston and he forwarded my post to the mailing list
without my permission.

One thing I'll add here - two separate sets of folks on the aolserver
list have e-mailed me to ask me whether or not I had interest in
getting involved in setting up an alternative community for aolserver
users.  I happen to know there's a third set of folks with the same
idea.

This may or may not happen, and I may or may not help.  But one
thing's for sure - when three separate sets of folk independently
start thinking about
setting up an alternative community for users of an open source
project because they can't work with the leader, you *know* that
project is in trouble.