Re: Proposal to shutdown pgFoundry

2011/5/24 Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>:
> Dave,
>
>> Links will be available from the software catalog, which we can
>> redirect to from pgfoundry.org. I don't think we have any
>> responsibility to provide search rankings for projects beyond that.
>
> We do have a duty not to make people think our accessory projects are
> dead.  If a user follows the top 5 links for, for example, pgpool, and
> that link is a 404, he's going to assume that the pgpool project is
> gone.  Not that it's moved somewhere else.
>
> The alternative to providing forwarding is to keep pgfoundry up for a
> year after we start telling people to move off of it, but gradually lock
> out activity on pgfoundry.  That way there would be a transition period
> during which the new locations for projects could climb the search results.

At the end of this period, can we just make pgfoundry generated pages
static, for memory and not to break links at all ?

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