Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

On Thursday 31 December 2009 12:06:10 Guillaume Smet wrote:
> it's a good opportunity to have a lot of PostgreSQL projects
> gathered in one place.
>

I think there are two sides to this. One is that there is actually a danger of 
concentrating a lot of our projects in one place. It makes the community more 
insular, and also creates a perception in other development communties 
(sourceforge/launchpad/github/etc...) that there is less postgresql related 
activity going on than what is really the case. 

However in general I agree that the postgresql project should try to promote 
postgresql related software, however I don't think we need project hosting to 
do it, and in fact I think that is the wrong way to do it. The software 
catalog is a much better system for that, since it allows inclusion of any/all 
projects and requires less operational overhead. 

> I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one in this case and I'm also pretty
> sure there's a lot of projects that won't be moved and will be lost
> (either immediately or after a few years).
>

Ah the delicious irony of life. Trust me there was no bigger advocate of this 
position than me when we were shutting down gborg. I pestered people so much 
on this idea, I think I even got Josh to move some dead projects to pgfoundry 
before it was all over with. In time I have come around to the idea (which 
everyone else held at the time) that if the code is valuable enough to keep, 
someone will move it.

> I don't really see pgFoundry maintenance as something requiring a lot
> of time. Am I wrong?

I don't know how much time it requires, but I do know it's more time than we 
have been able to come up with. For years. 

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Robert Treat
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