[META-SIG] Re: retiring the db-sig

[Greg Stein]

Hmm. I must have missed Michael's original email. Maybe it just went to
Guido... dunno.

In either case, that would be great if you could "take over." I find I'm
just not giving it the justice it needs/deserves and if I'm going to be
the thread-sig guy, then I'd really be doing the db-sig a disservice.

-g

-----Original Message-----
From:	Guido van Rossum [SMTP:guido@CNRI.Reston.Va.US]
Sent:	Monday, July 21, 1997 6:56 AM
To:	Michael McLay
Cc:	meta-sig@python.org
Subject:	[META-SIG] Re: retiring the db-sig

Michael McLay writes, on retiring the db-sig:

> I'd like to keep it alive, so I'll take over as the sig champion.  I
> think it needs to stay open until a few more databases are compliant
> with the db interface standard.  (In particuular the mSQL interface
> doesn't comply.  I just started using it, so I might be able to work
> on this some.)  Also, since the sig web page is the primary hook for
> getting information about the Python database interface standard it
> can't just be abandoned.  It would create some dead links.
> 
> I really think we need to classify the SIGs based on activity level.
> Some of the dormant SIGs should be labeled as such and moved to a
> separate section at the bottom of the SIG page.

That's a great idea -- perhaps a separate section of "past sigs" could
be kept around as well, with their last known home page, archive etc.
E.g. I imagine that the archives of the recently closed pythonwin-sig
should still be accessible!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)


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