Re: Proposal to shutdown pgFoundry

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: 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: 2011-05-24 19:08:59
Message-ID: BANLkTinWsw7uh-zA4wAgJyW0e+=3DWmJcQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Cédric Villemain
<cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> The alternative to providing forwarding is to keep pgfoundry up for a
>> year after we start telling people to move off of it, but gradually lock
>> out activity on pgfoundry.  That way there would be a transition period
>> during which the new locations for projects could climb the search results.

That's why the proposal gave a six month transition time and not
something shorter.

> At the end of this period, can we just make pgfoundry generated pages
> static, for memory and not to break links at all ?

That's not a good idea, as a) they won't point to the new projects and
b) will become steadily more out of date.

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