Re: PostgreSQL passes MySQL for Freshmeat Downloads

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>>> Check it out, folks:
>>>
>>> http://freshmeat.net/
>>>
>> And Freshmeat has 8.3.0!  I thought we were going to keep this up to
>> date, and if not, we were going to remove it.  Well, we are not keeping
>> it up to date!
>>
>
> _Please_ by all means let's remove it.  It is always out of date.  If we
> absolutely must keep a Freshmeat entry, then it should not list any
> "current release" at all -- let's make it just point to our own web site
> that's (almost) always up to date.
>
But then we would drop behind MySQL in terms of downloads, since noone
would be able to download from freshmeat. ;-)  It's quite the
conundrum..  Perhaps we can let them download a downloader, which
downloads from the PostgreSQL site (j/k)...

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