Re: Proposal to shutdown pgFoundry

2011/5/20 Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:
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> On May 20, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Dave Page wrote:
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>> 2011/5/20 Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:
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>>> On May 20, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 15:36 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
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>>>>> I think we'd want to try to avoid doing that as it would require
>>>>> policing to ensure inappropriate content wasn't uploaded.
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>>>> (I quoted wrong email in my previous reply, sorry)
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>>>> We already allow *everyone* to distribute their tarballs through our FTP
>>>> mirror network...
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>>> Why won't we direct them to PGXN? It seems to have a really nice way to store/discover PostgreSQL related projects.
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>> That might be appropriate for some packages, but certainly not all.
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> I'm wondering what are these 'inappropriate' packages. Any examples?

The OLEDB driver. pgInstaller. StackBuilder all spring to mind.

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