From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
Cc: | Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, 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>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pgFoundry Download URLs |
Date: | 2009-12-31 18:48:33 |
Message-ID: | 1262285313.7473.253.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 18:43 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> > .Org has NEVER made Gborg or PgFoundry a priority. Migration to
> > FusionForge will not change that because Migration is the easiest of the
> > problems to solve.
>
> At the risk of pissing off some people, .org did put effort into
> maintaining GBorg - it worked very well and was supported by it's
> original author and others who chipped in from time to time as needed.
> It did not put effort into maintaining pgFoundry, largely because it
> was setup outside of the normal .org processes and infrastructure
> management (consider for example, the fact that it's pgfoundry.org,
> and not part of postgresql.org like all the other services we
> maintain).
To be fair to all involved, my recollection is going to be during the
time when both were in service (which was a couple of years) and then
the subsequent migration and after effects.
>
> I'll also note that it's extremely easy to say that migration isn't an
> issue when you host most/all of your projects elsewhere, and won't be
> migrating anyone else's projects.
My point is not that migration is easy, it is that it is the smallest
part of the problem.
> Oh, and to end on a positive note - Happy New Year folks :-)
>
And to you!
Joshua D. Drake
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