Re: Sourceforge - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Sourceforge
Date
Msg-id 5567508D.4050906@agliodbs.com
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In response to Sourceforge  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
List pgsql-advocacy
On 05/28/2015 11:15 AM, Gilberto Castillo wrote:
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>> On 05/28/2015 10:06 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
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>>> All,
>>>
>>> Based on this:
>>>
>>> https://lwn.net/Articles/646118/
>>>
>>> ... it would be great if someone could check on the various mirrors of
>>> PostgreSQL packages on Sourceforge, and make sure that (a) someone from
>>> our project still owns them, and (b) they're still offering actual
>>> Postgres downloads.
>>>
>>> Overall, I would suggest that we probably want to disable all Postgres
>>> content mirrors on Sourceforge.  We don't really have the spare time to
>>> maintain them, and this incident shows that that's a bad situation.
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>> According to SF, this donkey has left the field:
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>> PostgreSQL
>> A powerful, open source object-relational database system.
>> Brought to you by: sf-editor, sf-editor1, sf-editor3
>>
>> Unless someone in our community is an sf-editor.....
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> This site lock download from Cuba

Yes, it's run by a US-based company.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com


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