Re: Sourceforge

On 05/28/2015 10:11 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> On 05/28/2015 10:06 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Based on this:
>>
>> https://lwn.net/Articles/646118/
>>
>> ... it would be great if someone could check on the various mirrors of
>> PostgreSQL packages on Sourceforge, and make sure that (a) someone from
>> our project still owns them, and (b) they're still offering actual
>> Postgres downloads.
>>
>> Overall, I would suggest that we probably want to disable all Postgres
>> content mirrors on Sourceforge.  We don't really have the spare time to
>> maintain them, and this incident shows that that's a bad situation.
>
> According to SF, this donkey has left the field:
>
> PostgreSQL
> A powerful, open source object-relational database system.
> Brought to you by: sf-editor, sf-editor1, sf-editor3

Thanks.

They do seem to be maintaining up-to-date downloads.  Can someone on
Windows check to see if they're distributing adware?

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
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