Re: Problem with OpenSCG downloads

On 2018-08-16 16:25, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2018-08-16 11:19:49 -0400, Jim Mlodgenski wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> > Jimbo assured me at PGCon that Amazon were going to ensure those packages
>> > were kept up to date in the normal schedule.
>> >
>> > Jim, do you know what's happening?
>
>> Yea, we are working on getting them out ASAP. Because of the
>> acquisition,
>> our build servers are now sitting in physical locations where people
>> don't
>> regularly work. In this particular case, they are sitting in our NJ
>> office
>> which had a power outage long enough the the UPS drained requiring
>> someone
>> to physically hit the button to power up the servers so we can do the
>> builds. We're working on moving the builds to this newfangled thing
>> called
>> the cloud so we don't have the problem in the future. :-)
>>
>> I'll ask the team to give me an ETA and report back.
>
> FWIW, I find this pretty damning given that there's been new security
> release for a week: You've added no notes about it to the bigsql
> download page. Pinged nobody, to get the downloadlinks temporarily
> adorned with a warning on the pg site. And then there's the issue that
> the dates besides the releases on the download page are referencing the
> date of the newest set of minor releases, but aren't actually new.
>
> This is ridiculously intransparent.

Is it fairly simple for us to just comment out/remove the links for now?

We don't want to be pointing people to software with known security
issues.

We can put the links back in when the updated downloads are in place. :)

+ Justin