Re: Where to Host Project

On Sep 18, 2008, at 18:43, Robert Treat wrote:

>>    * Google Code
>
> does not offer mailing lists

I get mail for the test-more project there. It's through Google  
Groups, which is a little weird, but works.

>>   * LaunchPad
>
> does not offer svn or git, and i think they dont offer a home page  
> service

It uses Bazaar. WTF is that? I've never heard of it.

>>   * WebFaction
>
> dont really know anything about these guys, but i thought they did web
> hosting, not project hosting.

Yeah, looks that way.

> Just for the record, you have overlooked SourceForge. While it  
> appears to
> fallen out of favor with the open source crowd, it is the one  
> service that
> does provide everything you wanted.

Good point. I've not used it in years. Last time I looked the mail  
archives still sucked pretty hard. Otherwise, now that it has SVN, and  
if it has eliminated the performance problems, it might just do the  
trick.

> I've been saying for some time now we need to get out of the project  
> hosting
> service, and get into the project directory service. What we really  
> want is
> to make it easy for people to find postgresql related projects,  
> regardless of
> where they are.

That's an excellent idea. Do you have a plan for this?

Thanks,

David