Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 11:31 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> My $0.02:
>
> With the presensce today of Launchpad, Codehaus, SourceForge, Tigris,
> Java.net, CPAN, GEM, Developerworks, Github, Code.Google.com, and
> others, it seems silly for our project to be putting our scarce admin
> resources into maintaining/improving an outdated collab site. Let
> others do the work.
>

+1

> There's also a 2nd advantage to having the PG accessory project mostly
> hosted elsewhere: it makes us more visible to outside communities.
>

+1

> What we need out of pgfoundry is five things, none of which require a
> full collab framework, and some of which are really unrelated to the others:
>
> 1) a place for less offical mailing lists (e.g. non-permanent
> non-(at)postgresql(dot)org mailing lists) which can be created without the
> whole process required for a new "official" list. Note that many of
> these lists are not related to any code development project.

Not sure why this is needed, everyone of the sites listed above provides
mailing list capability.

>
> 2) a place for web pages/documentation for some projects (which could be
> a wiki, or something else)
>

Again, not sure why this is needed, all the sites above provide this.

> 3) a search and download service for postgresql accessories (something
> pgfoundry currently does a poor job of)
>

See Robert's remarks ala Freshmeat

> 4) a news feed for postgresql accessories (something pgfoundry currently
> does a bad job of)

Freshmeat style.

>
> 5) A place to store files for download for internal project use which is
> easier to manage than mediawiki's "images", and includes the ability to
> restrict files to a specific access list. Like (1), these files are
> largely not related to specific development projects.

This seems to be a request for something that doesn't really have
anything to do with the topic. You want a file manager? Set up SVN/GIT
or something.

In all, this coincides with what I and several others have also brought
up. We need to get out of this game.

Joshua D. Drake

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