Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

Dave Page wrote:
> 2009/12/28 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
>> 2009/12/27 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>:
>>> On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 17:38 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>>>>> Probably adding a feature like RAC to PostgreSQL is easier than
>>>>> upgrading GForge.
>>>> Are you offering?
>>> Working on RAC? No :P.
>>>
>>> Upgrading GForge? Probably not. I know how many people tried it before.
>> Not that I'm necessarily volunteering to do anything whatsoever, but
>> would someone be willing to point me in the direction of, and/or give
>> me access to, whatever I would need to understand the scope of this
>> apparently intractable problem?
> 
> Not sure what I'd point you too. A large part of the problem is that
> the original installation of GForge was hacked about to a) run on
> FreeBSD and b) add some features/bells 'n' whistles, but whoever did
> it, didn't document it.
> 
> A) is not really an issue - we can move to Linux, but we will need a
> proper migration plan for the user accounts of course.

yeah

> 
> B) is potentially more of an issue.
> 
> Guillaume Smet did perform an initial migration
> (http://takara.postgresql.org/) on FreeBSD, which has stalled, largely
> due to lack of spare time I think.

note that despite what people claim usually our pgfoundry code is only 
marginally modified ( two or three things to make it work better on 
freebsd and some manual backports for security issues).
The main issue is just that upgrading is simply a large amount of work 
that needs a concerted effort from a few of us.


Stefan