Re: Sourceforge PG release

Dave,

Perhaps they simply don't enjoy our community or they simply don't
want to become a part of it, or they even don't know about the
postgresql.org site! Not every single user of the PostgreSQL project
is a member of the community.

It's just another place where to get the stuff from, and nothing else.

Just a thought.

gb.-

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Dave Page<dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> So 65000 are battling the sf.net advertising network, and perhaps not
> realising we have a thriving community over here.
>
> I honestly don't see how having a sf.net page helps our users get the
> most out of the project, or helps us as a project.
>
> On 7/6/09, Guido Barosio <gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> IMHO 65000 downloads are actually saying: "please don't remove the
>> project from this site because someone may find it useful"
>>
>> gb.-
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Marc G. Fournier<scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:
>>>
>>> What is the harm in keeping it?  Doesn't Google use 'relevant links
>>> metrics'
>>> to improve search results or something?  If the sf.net project just points
>>> to our own files, and we don't have to upload anything ... what is the
>>> issue?
>>>
>>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jaime Casanova wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Dave Page<dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fwiw, i think having an sf.net project is a *bad* idea anyway. It's
>>>>>> confusing for people who find that project and don't realise it's not
>>>>>> actually used for anything. It seems a strange thing to maintain
>>>>>> anyway - it's not exactly likely to attract new users.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> yeah! i was wondering about the very same thing... what's the
>>>>> usefulness for maintaining a sf.net project?
>>>>
>>>> I don't know, but as long as it exists we should keep it current.  Do we
>>>> want to remove it?
>>>>
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