Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by rolfvandekrol 59 days ago
From the story told in the README it is clear this is a project ran by a single person. There is no wider maintenance team that can be trusted with continuing the project. So anyone who offers to take up the maintenance will be unknown to the current maintainer and cannot automatically be trusted.

The alternative to this seemingly bitter approach is handing over the trust they built to some unknown person who can do whatever they want with the data in a lot of PostgreSQL databases around the world. I think I prefer the bitterness here over blind trust.
1 comments
freedomben 59 days ago
Sure, but what if someone from the postgres team decided they wanted to step up? The door is completely shut for that now. And if we can't trust someone from the postgres team to do it, then who can we trust?
link
vova_hn2 59 days ago
> The door is completely shut for that now.

No, it's not. You can still contact the author and ask them to transfer the name to you.

link