Re: pgFoundry Download URLs - Mailing list pgsql-www
From | Greg Sabino Mullane |
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Subject | Re: pgFoundry Download URLs |
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Msg-id | 64ccaa9f9a92336fec247b30b71013c5@biglumber.com Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: pgFoundry Download URLs (Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>) |
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Re: pgFoundry Download URLs
(Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
Re: pgFoundry Download URLs (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>) |
List | pgsql-www |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 >> There's also a 2nd advantage to having the PG accessory project mostly >> hosted elsewhere: it makes us more visible to outside communities. > > and makes it harder to aggregate them back into a canonical > search/aggregator which is what some people want... We're never going to have that. See below. ... > so what place would you redirect people too if they ask for a listing of > stuff related to postgresql? and no I don't think a manually maintained > "software catalogue" like we have on the website is any/much better. There is no single *place* we can redirect people to, nor will there ever be moving forward. It's way too late for that. Look at the number of Postgres related projects that are *not* on pgf, and ask yourself if they will ever migrate back to pgf or its successor (hint: no). > What we need is aggregation of information and it is kind of hard to see > how we would get that out of any of the existing collab sites (except > maybe freshmeat but even that would not work too well). For stuff on pgf > we essentially get most of the important information for "free" as part > of people running their projects. Just because we failed to utilize that > information so far does not mean that the whole concept is flawed. I think it does indicate just that. How many years has gborg and now pgfoundry limped along? I agree that we can do better with a central listing. Rather than the hard to navigate and hard to find software catalogoue (or however Dave spells it :), let's create a page on the wiki that lists all interesting and active Postgres related projects. Not a category, not a set of pages, a single page. There are probably at most 50 such projects. The inclusion rule would be simple: someone who cares enough about a particular project can get a wiki account and add it in themselves. Name, link, short description, done. In case I'm not clear, I'm also +1 for shutting down pgf at some point. It's a big jumbled mess of unloved and unfinished projects right now, with a tiny handful of truly active and useful projects. Cut them all free, and the survivors will find other homes (e.g. github). I know that's harsh, but it's 2010 and pgf is still embarassingly bad after all these years. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201001051330 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAktDhb8ACgkQvJuQZxSWSsgDcgCbBlXAv8g9DiQPkqf124pbcZyW N/8AoIdLOkFN7es5Kis1niqoYIC7qAD+ =i0dZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----