From: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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To: | josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Where to Host Project |
Date: | 2008-09-20 07:25:42 |
Message-ID: | 937d27e10809200025h759ace9fhf9ac992fd8a3a98e@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> > That's kind of what I'm doing now. But I'm wondering if I should
>> > bother with pgFoundry at all. It seems pretty dead (see Josh Berkus's
>> > reply).
>
> Actually, pgFoundry remains extremely popular. Currently, we're getting an
> average of 2-3 new projects a week.
>
> The issue with pgFoundry is that it's based on a hacked version of the
> GForge code, which had legacy problems to begin with and is now no longer
> upgradable. And while lots of people want to complain about it, nobody
> wants to put in the 15-25 hours of work required to fix it up so that it
> supports SVN and code snippets (including me).
Well that's not strictly true - I persuaded one of the GForge
developers to work on the upgrade. As far as I'm aware, we're still
waiting for the hardware/OS platform to be sorted out after some
initial problems. I suspect JD will tell me something different though
- that being the case, perhaps we can work out the issues and get on
with the upgrade.
--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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