Re: Proposal to shutdown pgFoundry

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote:
> Dave,
>
> On 05/25/2011 10:49 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>> For a start, because GForge doesn't let you put arbitrary links on the
>> project pages
>
> Hm.. okay, that's unfortunate.  Is the customized GForge code that we
> use available somewhere?

Not that I know of (aside from the live server of course)

>> Besides, leaving the site up there doesn't actually solve the issue
>> that there are probably a ton of security issues in its code, that
>> would likely still be there even if we did disable all logins.
>
> The proposal was to put up a static copy.  That hardly has any security
> issues, I think.

Actually generating a static copy may be a non-trivial amount of work
though. It's easy enough to spider the site and store it as a static
HTML, but we'd also need to ensure we remove any links or forms to
non-static features of course.

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