Re: RFC: Hosting mailing lists of 3rd party projects

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 00:41 +0530, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> Over the last few years, postgresql.org only hosted pgsql-* and pgadmin*
> mailing lists. A few weeks before, we added psycopg2, too, because the
> project needed a mailing list (since their machine died and data was not
> recovered).
>
> Before we add more, I think we need to define a policy for hosting
> mailing lists of 3rd party projects.
>
> Some of the 3rd party projects already have their own server (like
> slony.info), and some of them host their lists on pgfoundry (like
> pgpool) -- and we have been hosting pgadmin mailing list for a long
> time.
>
> However, there are some more projects, like postgres-xc, need only
> mailing list -- not web space, etc. The current issue with postgres-xc
> mailing lists is that we see some RAC advertisements appended to the
> emails, which is embarrassing.
>
> IMHO, postgresql.org can provide mailing list service to such projects,
> unless they have their own domain already, or they are not hosted at
> pgfoundry.
>
> Comments?
>

I think any third party project that wants to utilize the .org
infrastructure should use pgfroundry.

JD

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