Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgFoundry Download URLs
Date: 2010-01-02 12:09:54
Message-ID: 9837222c1001020409j46d9f40fy91de2a710791747a@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 00:43, David E. Wheeler <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>
>> On the other hand we got more than 50 project applications this year(not all of the accepted) so there seems to be a need and an interest from the community for a postgresql centric project hosting infrastructure.
>
> Yes, but are those people applying to pgFoundry to take advantage of the tools, or to have a presence in the community? I'll bet that the latter is usually the more important reason, since there are better tools elsewhere.

It's certainly not to take advantage of the tools, unless they have
been living under a rock for the past 5 years when the rest of the
world of project-hosting overtook pgfoundry rapidly :)

That said, a lot of the projects on pgfoundry don't *need* anything
more advanced than what it provides. And given that restriction, it's
"good enough", and the "community visibility" (which IMHO pgfoundry
actually doesn't give you, but that's a different thing - people think
it does and that's what matters) adds value, and it's "the default
place to go".

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Magnus Hagander
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