David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>
>> and makes it harder to aggregate them back into a canonical search/aggregator which is what some people want...
>
> How so? It's not hard to aggregate stuff, and we're not doing it *at all* right now.
well exactly my point - that is what I think we really need and basing
it upon a service we directly control is certainly easier than doing
(useful) aggregation of only external services. That said we probably
need both :)
>
>> I hope you are not advocating we should put those lists on @postgresql.org again which is almost the opposite of
whatyou proposed with "hosting stuff elsewhere. Also a fair number of the above mentioned resources don't actually
providemailinglists.
>
> Any subdomain would do.
why centralize again? if we are advocating external resources why would
we bother with maintaining an even more complex mailinglist setup?
>
>>> 2) a place for web pages/documentation for some projects (which could be
>>> a wiki, or something else)
>> hmm? again this sounds like a central wiki (which we have) or are you asking for every project running their own
wiki?
>
> The latter. Which most other project hosting sites already offer.
ok but still you would have to aggregate all the stuff on those wikis
back into the (hypothetical) aggregation/umbrella service ;)
Stefan
