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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Subject: Re: pgBackRest maintenance (was Re: Tablespace size in TB)
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 13:26:45 -0400
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On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 11:45:53PM -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote:
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>
> > On May 3, 2026, at 22:55, Ilya Kosmodemiansky <ik@dataegret.com>
> > wrote: Making a company-branded fork is the easiest (and wrong)
> > step. Planning how to pick up the pgBackRest project or create a
> > sustainable, community-driven fork that re-establishes at least the
> > same reputation requires longer preparation. We all need patience.
>
> Dave was quite clear that someone "picking up the pgBackRest project"
> was not on the table. I don't think that avenue is open.
>
> I would feel more sanguine about the idea that a new
> community-sported fork will emerge if there were an existence proof
> of it happening in the PostgreSQL community. I can't think of one.
That happened with pgbouncer where development stopped and a new team
picked it up. I think Peter Eisentraut was involved. With pgbackrest,
I think a similar thing would need to happen, but with a new name.
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