Re: Any update on Mckoi's status?

["Richard S. Hall" <heavy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"dead" does not necessarily == "trash"...

Sometimes leaders of open source projects also have to "wake up to 
reality" and move onto other things.

For someone interested in leading a database project, it certainly makes 
more sense to start with an existing one than to start from 
scratch...unless of course the existing project really is trash.

However, I don't think that is the case for Mckoi, it always worked 
reasonably well for me. "Better" depends on the metric, but why stick 
around the mckoi mailing list if you think it is trash?

-> richard

Alexander Finger wrote:
> Personally I can't imagine why anyone would waste their time. If 
> you're going to try and help continue development on a database their 
> are plenty of better open source ones out there. McKoi is dead I am 
> sure and nothing is going to bring her back...
>
> A
>
> On Jan 28, 2008 4:42 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu 
> <mailto:tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>     If I were 10 years younger,
>     If my mortgage was a bit less and therefore I could afford to work
>     less than full time,
>     If I were a bit more fluent in database,
>     If I were a bit smarter and more ambitious,
>
>     THEN I would write to Tobi (is that his name?) and ask:
>
>     a) would he be willing to play a role of assisting a small group
>     of developers,
>     b) what plans he had had for the future of mcKoi while he was
>     leading the project actively,
>
>     AND
>
>     If his response were positive, I would assemble a small group
>     (fewer than 6) of java programmers...
>
>     Oops, I just woke up from a nice dream and back into a reality.  I
>     think that's what they call this
>     thing I live in.  But some of you may be freer, more ambirious,
>     more devoting...
>     McKoi doesn't have to die.
>
>     Tena Sakai
>     tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu <mailto:tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu>
>
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: mckoidb@mckoi.com <mailto:mckoidb@mckoi.com> on behalf of
>     Richard S. Hall
>     Sent: Mon 1/28/2008 1:07 PM
>     To: mckoidb@mckoi.com <mailto:mckoidb@mckoi.com>
>     Subject: Re: Any update on Mckoi's status?
>
>     The benefit of Mckoi being open source is that anyone that wants
>     to can
>     pick up and start where the original developers left off...
>
>     -> richard
>
>     Alexander Molochnikov wrote:
>     > Two days ago I asked he same question on this mailing list.
>     > 
>     > So far, no reply from the developers of the database.
>     > 
>     > It does not look promising.
>     > 
>     > Alex
>     >
>     > ----- Original Message -----
>     > From: "M. A. Sridhar" <m_a_sridhar@yahoo.com
>     <mailto:m_a_sridhar@yahoo.com>>
>     > Date: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:46 am
>     > Subject: Any update on Mckoi's status?
>     > To: Mckoi mailing list <mckoidb@mckoi.com
>     <mailto:mckoidb@mckoi.com>>
>     >
>     > > Does anyone know what's happening with Mckoi? As  you know,
>     > > the last email in the archives is dated last June, so I'm
>     > > wondering if/when the next version might be available.
>     > >
>     > > Regards.
>     > > 
>     > > M. A. Sridhar
>     > > m_a_sridhar at yahoo dot com
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>
>
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