Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

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.

> 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.

>> 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.

> again the news feed stuff is mostly a tool issue (newer fusionforge versions do actually have way better RSS feed capabilities). However what we probably want is a thin aggregation layer on top of those (maybe a version of planet.postgresql.org on steriods with aggregates the various feeds and adds search on top).

Yes.

> imho that one is not at all related to pgfoundry or the problem at hand.

Well, it's certainly related to download URLs. But it's not at all what pgFoundry does, I agree.

> so what place would you redirect people too if they ask for a listing of stuff related to postgresql? and no I don't think a manually maintained "software catalogue" like we have on the website is any/much better.

Agreed.

Best,

David