Re: Proposal to shutdown pgFoundry

On 05/20/2011 11:43 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
>> 2011/5/20 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>:
>>> When we shut it down, all projects will all go somewhere else, and that
>>> somewhere else might sound reliable to the people outside the community.
>>> That is the only concern of me. Getting rid of CVS is fine, and they can
>>> move their projects to git.postgresql.org, which would be excellent.
>>> Still, is there a simple way that PostgreSQL infrastructure team can
>>> provide hosting are for tarballs for ex-pgfoundry projects?
>
>> I think we'd want to try to avoid doing that as it would require
>> policing to ensure inappropriate content wasn't uploaded.
>
> ... yeah, that's a problem.
>
>> Plus, people can always use SourceForge for distribution.
>
> If you drive people to sourceforge for distribution, what value is there
> in git.postgresql.org?
>
> I need to figure out what to do with pg_filedump. All I need for it
> is an SCM and someplace to put release tarballs. I'd prefer to use
> git.postgresql.org, but if there's nowhere for tarballs, that's not
> going to work.

hmm tarballs are a really good point, not sure what to do there -
provide some some minimal interface to push them to the mirror network
or do we need something more fancy?

Stefan