Re: Proposal to shutdown pgFoundry

Dave,

As you know, I'm in favor of this in general.  Shutting down pgfoundry will be a significant amount of effort though.

So, some things:

Mailing Lists:
I think you're underestimating the number of mailing lists in pgFoundry.   I know I use pgFoundry for "disposable"
mailinglists for special purposes (Google SOC 2011, for example).  While there are plenty of places I can externally
hostcode, free mailing list hosting on third parties in general is inadequate for the community purposes I need lists
for(yahoo and google groups are problematic for multiple reasons).   I really need to have a mailserver which is not
consideredcritical by the sysadmin team, and where I can freely create new lists and drop old ones.
 

Links:
The pgfoundry page is often the top google link for a lot of projects.  If those links stop working a lot of PG-related
projectswill effectively vanish from Google.  So we're going to need to create redirects for all of the
projects.postgresql.orgpages at a minimum to new locations supplied by the project owner.
 


Directory:
We're going to need something better than the current software directory app, which is dominated by commercial
advertisting. Ideas?
 


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