Re: Sourceforge on Oracle? (WAY OT) - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi All,

Looks like we were wrong.  They've still got the SF Alexandria code
online, it's just been moved to a different project :

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=123589

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


Justin Clift wrote:
>
> Hi Ned,
>
> (Welcome back.  :)  )
>
> Here's an interesting thought... wonder who has the latest copy of the
> SF project code?  How about setting up a NEW project for Sourceforge,
> call it "Alexia" for example, on Sourceforge.
>
> Now, I wonder what the moral/legal ramifications would be if they found
> out then took it down?  (As they would)
>
> ;)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
> Ned Lilly wrote:
> >
> > Nice indeed.  Well, now that VA Linux and CollabNet have both gone
> > over to the dark side, let me make a pitch for the "gborg"
> > software - which powered the late greatbridge.org site.  If people
> > are looking for a SourceForgey-type of collaborative development
> > suite, I think they'll be pleasantly surprised by gborg.  And, of
> > course, the price is right.
> >
> > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/gborg/projdisplay.php
> >
> > I know there have been some issues getting it moved over to Hub.org,
> > but I think Mark and Chris have just about ironed them all out.
> >
> > It's powered by Postgres, with the Mailman listserver and CVS
> > underneath.  Issue tracking, task manager, patch and download
> > manager, and other glue all in PHP.  We'd kicked around the idea of
> > a unified communications approach, which would have involved hacking
> > Mailman to use Postgres as the data store, then possibly grafting on
> > a message board like Phorum along side of it - so you could post to,
> > and receive from, either mail, news, or Web board.  That's a bit of
> > work, but the foundation is all there today.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ned
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "J Smith" <dark_panda@hushmail.com>
> > To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Sourceforge on Oracle?
> >
> > >
> > > Here's another interesting tidbit -- if you check out the
> > SourceForge
> > > project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/alexandria/, it
> > seems
> > > they've taken down all of their published code and closed their
> > CVS
> > > repository. Nice.
> > >
> > > J
> > >
> > >
> > > Earlier, I wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Although my submission to /. on the subject was rejected, they
> > posted
> > > > something similar today. Tim responded to one of my posts with
> > the
> > > > following:
> > > >
> > > > "I decided to let go of the wreckage called VA Linux about 2 1/2
> > months
> > > > ago, so I'm not involved.
> > > >
> > > > The switch to closed-source and Oracle is a result of the...
> > shall we
> > > > say... lack of success in the sales department while the open
> > source code
> > > > was available."
> > > >
> > > > FWIW.
> > > >
> > > > J
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > >>> I just read that the new commercial version of Sourceforge
> > will _only_
> > > >>> run on Linux/Oracle:
> > > >>> http://www.idg.net/ic_724290_1773_1-3921.html
> > > >>
> > > >> I suppose it'd be inappropriate to post this link on Slashdot
> > under
> > > >> a heading like "SourceForge Sells Out: No more open-source
> > database
> > > >> support" ...
> > > >>
> > > >> Tim Perdue read this list last I heard, wonder if he's going to
> > weigh
> > > >> in on this thread?
> > > >>
> > > >> regards, tom lane
> > > >>
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"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
first group; there was less competition there."
   - Indira Gandhi