Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgFoundry Download URLs
Date: 2010-01-04 20:30:20
Message-ID: 4B424FDC.6060407@kaltenbrunner.cc
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>
>> and makes it harder to aggregate them back into a canonical search/aggregator which is what some people want...
>
> How so? It's not hard to aggregate stuff, and we're not doing it *at all* right now.

well exactly my point - that is what I think we really need and basing
it upon a service we directly control is certainly easier than doing
(useful) aggregation of only external services. That said we probably
need both :)

>
>> I hope you are not advocating we should put those lists on @postgresql.org again which is almost the opposite of what you proposed with "hosting stuff elsewhere. Also a fair number of the above mentioned resources don't actually provide mailinglists.
>
> Any subdomain would do.

why centralize again? if we are advocating external resources why would
we bother with maintaining an even more complex mailinglist setup?

>
>>> 2) a place for web pages/documentation for some projects (which could be
>>> a wiki, or something else)
>> hmm? again this sounds like a central wiki (which we have) or are you asking for every project running their own wiki?
>
> The latter. Which most other project hosting sites already offer.

ok but still you would have to aggregate all the stuff on those wikis
back into the (hypothetical) aggregation/umbrella service ;)

Stefan

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