Re: Proposal to shutdown pgFoundry

2011/5/20 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>:
> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 15:48 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> > 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, that's a good example. It would certainly qualify to live on
>> git.postgresql.org using the criteria I have in mind, but I can see
>> the tarballs would be an issue. If we do keep git.postgresql.org for
>> trusted projects, then perhaps it wouldn't be such an issue to give
>> certain users from each one access to a server to upload tarballs into
>> the mirror network.
>>
>> I certainly wouldn't want to offer that to every project on pgFoundry
>> though.
>
> We already allow *everyone* to distribute their tarballs through our FTP
> mirror network.

Yes, but that wasn't the point of my comment - more that there's a
barrier of entry to pass at present before you can do that, which
makes it harder for people to use the distribution facilities
inappropriately.

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