Re: Proposal to shutdown pgFoundry

On 05/29/2011 02:00 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 19:36, Jeff Davis<pgsql@j-davis.com>  wrote:
>    
>> GitHub doesn't offer mailing lists at all. Not all projects need a
>> mailing list, but I've found it to be helpful for the temporal project.
>>      
> GitHub beats sourceforge on pretty much everything except for this one
> thing, imho. But if that's considered critical enough, I agree it's
> not a good choice.
>    

Agreed on all that.  I think the decision tree for where to host a 
projects might look like this:

-Are a critical project to the PostgreSQL infrastructure:  
git.postgresql.org + PostgreSQL hosted mailing list
-Don't care about mailing lists or web space:  github
-Need a basic mailing list, but don't care about integration with the 
repo:  github + Google Groups
-Need a mailing list with repo integration:  sourceforge

To help provide a resource here, I just wrote up a little guide to 
PostgreSQL related project hosting on the wiki:  
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Project_Hosting

That includes a little blurb about the uncertainty around PgFoundry.  If 
shutdown plans proceed, that might be worth expanding on with more 
hosting details, or notes  on doing a migration.  I started to draw a 
little chart showing which features are supported on each hosting 
platform, but suspect that I could probably find such a table elsewhere 
given a bit more time.

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