From: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
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To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pgFoundry Download URLs |
Date: | 2009-12-28 10:16:37 |
Message-ID: | 4B388585.5060000@kaltenbrunner.cc |
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Dave Page wrote:
> 2009/12/28 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> 2009/12/27 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>:
>>> On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 17:38 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>>>>> Probably adding a feature like RAC to PostgreSQL is easier than
>>>>> upgrading GForge.
>>>> Are you offering?
>>> Working on RAC? No :P.
>>>
>>> Upgrading GForge? Probably not. I know how many people tried it before.
>> Not that I'm necessarily volunteering to do anything whatsoever, but
>> would someone be willing to point me in the direction of, and/or give
>> me access to, whatever I would need to understand the scope of this
>> apparently intractable problem?
>
> Not sure what I'd point you too. A large part of the problem is that
> the original installation of GForge was hacked about to a) run on
> FreeBSD and b) add some features/bells 'n' whistles, but whoever did
> it, didn't document it.
>
> A) is not really an issue - we can move to Linux, but we will need a
> proper migration plan for the user accounts of course.
yeah
>
> B) is potentially more of an issue.
>
> Guillaume Smet did perform an initial migration
> (http://takara.postgresql.org/) on FreeBSD, which has stalled, largely
> due to lack of spare time I think.
note that despite what people claim usually our pgfoundry code is only
marginally modified ( two or three things to make it work better on
freebsd and some manual backports for security issues).
The main issue is just that upgrading is simply a large amount of work
that needs a concerted effort from a few of us.
Stefan
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