Re: Moving psqlodbc from pgfoundry to github

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
> On 06/04/2014 10:16 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
>> <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. Set up a github organization called "psqlodbc".
>>
>> If possible, I'd vote for pgodbc as organization/repo name, one reason
>> being that it is more consistent with pgjdbc.
>
>
> Hmm. psqlodbc has always been the name of the project, for better or worse.
> I agree it's not a very good name, but that's the name we use in the
> binaries, old website, git repository etc. That's just my 2c, though; what
> do others think?

Many years ago, the name was different in a bunch of different places.
We worked hard to standardise on psqlodbc, and I'd hate to see us go
back to the old ways.

>>> 2. Set up a github "organization page", with the website contebnts. Add a
>>> CNAME to "odbc.postgresql.org". So the official URL of the project would
>>> be
>>> "http://odbc.postgresql.org/", and it would be invisible to a casual user
>>> that it's hosted at github.
>>
>> I imagine that this would be added as a separate repository whose name
>> is psqlodbc.github.io with the URL you want to redirect to in the
>> CNAME.
>
>
> Right.
>
> I'm planning to set up the github repository as a mirror of the psqlodbc-www
> repository at git.postgresql.org. So
> git://git.postgresql.org/git/psqlodbc-www.git would still be the
> authoritative repository.

As far as GitHub is concerned, we have a "PostgreSQL" organisation on
there which hosts some of our other mirrors. I would suggest we put
this under that too.

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