Re: Sourceforge PG release

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Guido Barosio <gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Sourceforge PG release
Date: 2009-07-06 21:38:27
Message-ID: 937d27e10907061438q2866d736w8ddd4ba7af84a2af@mail.gmail.com
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So 65000 are battling the sf.net advertising network, and perhaps not
realising we have a thriving community over here.

I honestly don't see how having a sf.net page helps our users get the
most out of the project, or helps us as a project.

On 7/6/09, Guido Barosio <gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> IMHO 65000 downloads are actually saying: "please don't remove the
> project from this site because someone may find it useful"
>
> gb.-
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Marc G. Fournier<scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> What is the harm in keeping it? Doesn't Google use 'relevant links
>> metrics'
>> to improve search results or something? If the sf.net project just points
>> to our own files, and we don't have to upload anything ... what is the
>> issue?
>>
>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>>> Jaime Casanova wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Dave Page<dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Fwiw, i think having an sf.net project is a *bad* idea anyway. It's
>>>>> confusing for people who find that project and don't realise it's not
>>>>> actually used for anything. It seems a strange thing to maintain
>>>>> anyway - it's not exactly likely to attract new users.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> yeah! i was wondering about the very same thing... what's the
>>>> usefulness for maintaining a sf.net project?
>>>
>>> I don't know, but as long as it exists we should keep it current. Do we
>>> want to remove it?
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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