| From: | Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal to shutdown pgFoundry |
| Date: | 2011-05-25 09:21:33 |
| Message-ID: | 4DDCCA1D.9080809@bluegap.ch |
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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?
> There are hundreds of projects (the majority probably dead) on
> pgFoundry. *we* simply do not have the resources to ensure they all
> point to whereever the the projects may move to and ensure all the
> data on the site is accurate.
I didn't mean the to tell the Postgres www team to do that. However, I
do think that these projects deserve something better than a 404 after
half a year.
Keep in mind that project leaders were asked to move from Gborg to
pgFoundry just four years ago.
> 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.
Regards
Markus Wanner
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