Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, I'm for improving the catalogue to provide what people want from
>> it, but I'm certainly not going to support web pages, mailing lists,
>> file sharing or the one your forgot, bug tracking as well as
>> pgFoundry.
>
> AFAIK, nobody is using the bug tracking since it appears to be pretty
> much broken.

Works fine on the projects I've used it on. What's up with it?

>> Given past experience of migration, I can only believe that the least
>> painful, and most likely to happen option is an upgrade of pgFoundry
>> on a new, documented VM that the sysadmin team can manage properly.
>> Trying to get rid of pgFoundry will lead to years of faffing about
>> while we try to migrate people - if we even can migrate them anywhere
>> without losing mailing list/tracker history etc.
>
> Well, we can simply keep it on life support while we encourage people to
> use other services.  Then, like GBorg, we can kill it because nothing on
> it is maintained anymore.

It's been on life support for years. I honestly believe it'll be less
effort to rebuild it, and then take it off life support as a properly
managed service, than go through the pain and embarrassment of having
it rot for years whilst noone does anything about migrations for
users.


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Dave Page
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