Re: postgresql-archive.org

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-core(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgresql-archive.org
Date: 2018-08-22 21:48:36
Message-ID: 20180822214836.3ootfymp5bzarwjs@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2018-08-22 23:38:17 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 22/08/2018 21:08, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I kinda wonder if the postgres community shouldn't do something about
> > http://www.postgresql-archive.org/. The name makes it sound somewhat
> > official, but it doesn't appear to be. At least I do not know who runs
> > it. Does somebody else?
>
> I understand the concern, but I don't think there is anything we can do.
> Our trademark policy allows this kind of thing.

Not by my reading, and if so, it'd be useless. But I agree it could be
more clearly stated. If so, afaict we couldn't prevent people from
distributing a backdoored version of postgres as postgres, which'd be
clearly absurd.

> The truth is, our archive search and navigation is not good, so there is
> a third-party opportunity for a better one. If we don't like that, we
> should make ours better.

Sure, my point isn't that we should forbid them to operate, but to get
them to use a name that doesn't sound official, and perhaps note that as
well.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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