From: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Subject: | Re: Proposal to shutdown pgFoundry |
Date: | 2011-05-20 16:20:32 |
Message-ID: | 4DD694D0.9090900@kaltenbrunner.cc |
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On 05/20/2011 11:43 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
>> 2011/5/20 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>:
>>> When we shut it down, all projects will all go somewhere else, and that
>>> somewhere else might sound reliable to the people outside the community.
>>> That is the only concern of me. Getting rid of CVS is fine, and they can
>>> move their projects to git.postgresql.org, which would be excellent.
>>> Still, is there a simple way that PostgreSQL infrastructure team can
>>> provide hosting are for tarballs for ex-pgfoundry projects?
>
>> I think we'd want to try to avoid doing that as it would require
>> policing to ensure inappropriate content wasn't uploaded.
>
> ... yeah, that's a problem.
>
>> Plus, people can always use SourceForge for distribution.
>
> If you drive people to sourceforge for distribution, what value is there
> in git.postgresql.org?
>
> I need to figure out what to do with pg_filedump. All I need for it
> is an SCM and someplace to put release tarballs. I'd prefer to use
> git.postgresql.org, but if there's nowhere for tarballs, that's not
> going to work.
hmm tarballs are a really good point, not sure what to do there -
provide some some minimal interface to push them to the mirror network
or do we need something more fancy?
Stefan
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