Thread: FreshMeat and SourceForge listings out of date again
Hello, Last July, I made a little utility to help remind people when the various 3rd-party sites with information about PostgreSQL have out-of-date information. This utility itself is working fine, but I'm the only one being notified! As a result, two of the three monitored sites have been out of date for some time now. I sent this email to Marc Fournier a week ago, but still haven't heard back: --- There was a discussion on pgsql-advocacy back in July about keeping the current published version of PostgreSQL up-to-date on Freshmeat, SourceForge, and Wikipedia. I offered to create and host a system for checking if the versions were up-to-date on those three sites and complaining daily via email if they were not. I have implemented this system, and it's still working. However, no individual actually stepped forward and agreed to be notified by this mechanism. As a result, I haven't been sending the notifications, and the Freshmeat and SourceForge listings have gone out of date! You are an obvious candidate for notification, since you're the only one with access to update the Freshmeat page. May I have your permission to send you these alerts? I don't want to spam you without permission! If there there is anyone else who you feel I should contact with a similar request (about SourceForge in particular, since I can update the Wikipedia article myself if necessary), please do let me know. --- Does anyone have any suggestions on how to take care of this? Does anyone else want to get added to the annoy list? Here's an example of what a notification looks like: --- Subject: Version check alert! Latest version: 8.3.7 freshmeat: <http://freshmeat.net/projects/pgsql/> needs update! SourceForge: <http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=9764> needs update! Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PostgreSQL&action=edit> up to date --- -Jonathan
On 4/3/09 9:07 AM, Jonathan Fuerth wrote: > Hello, > > Last July, I made a little utility to help remind people when the > various 3rd-party sites with information about PostgreSQL have > out-of-date information. This utility itself is working fine, but I'm > the only one being notified! As a result, two of the three monitored > sites have been out of date for some time now. Ah. Yeah, you need it to notify me and Robert Treat, since we're the ones with the ability to update stuff. --Josh
> > Ah. Yeah, you need it to notify me and Robert Treat, since we're the ones > with the ability to update stuff. > > --Josh There are only a few a week - but http://downloads.com shows it hasn't been updated in > 1 year.
On 4/3/09 9:49 AM, Mike Ellsworth wrote: >> Ah. Yeah, you need it to notify me and Robert Treat, since we're the ones >> with the ability to update stuff. >> >> --Josh > > There are only a few a week - but http://downloads.com shows it hasn't > been updated in> 1 year. /me waits on Freshmeat to reset password ... --Josh
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Mike Ellsworth <younicycle@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are only a few a week - but http://downloads.com shows it hasn't > been updated in > 1 year. This turns out to be a tough site to scrape! Ironically, they probably designed it with that in mind, but it's hurting them by making stale content reminders more difficult to generate. I think the best approach for download.com a.k.a. downloads.com a.k.a. download.cnet.com would be to set up a single "official" account and then check the "uploads by this user" page for a current version number. There are already two such accounts, "Postgresql Community" and "PostgreSQL Global Development." Each user has a profile page that lists all their uploads, and that can be scraped easily enough. Can anyone here claim ownership for one of the accounts I mentioned? Anyone want to set up another one and let me know so that I can track it? -Jonathan
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > On 4/3/09 9:07 AM, Jonathan Fuerth wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Last July, I made a little utility to help remind people when the >> various 3rd-party sites with information about PostgreSQL have >> out-of-date information. This utility itself is working fine, but I'm >> the only one being notified! As a result, two of the three monitored >> sites have been out of date for some time now. > > Ah. Yeah, you need it to notify me and Robert Treat, since we're the ones > with the ability to update stuff. You are now on the notification list! I'll wait for confirmation from Robert before adding him, just because I know I'd be a little put off if someone I don't know started spamming me without my specific request. -Jonathan
Jonathan, > I'll wait for confirmation from Robert before adding him, just because > I know I'd be a little put off if someone I don't know started > spamming me without my specific request. What's your Freshmeat ID? Maybe I can add you to the project. Updating our FM profile has become pretty painful with the new interface for an update release. It's about 45min of data entry. This was obviously designed for projects which don't have back-branches. --Josh
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: >> I'll wait for confirmation from Robert before adding him, just because >> I know I'd be a little put off if someone I don't know started >> spamming me without my specific request. > > What's your Freshmeat ID? Maybe I can add you to the project. My freshmeat ID is jfuerth. > Updating our FM profile has become pretty painful with the new interface for > an update release. It's about 45min of data entry. This was obviously > designed for projects which don't have back-branches. Ouch. I wonder if this could be (semi?) automated. Do the writeups for each branch come from a predictable place based on the version number? Or are they written by hand for freshmeat? I know they prefer prose over bullet lists. -Jonathan
On 4/3/09 12:15 PM, Jonathan Fuerth wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Josh Berkus<josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: >>> I'll wait for confirmation from Robert before adding him, just because >>> I know I'd be a little put off if someone I don't know started >>> spamming me without my specific request. >> What's your Freshmeat ID? Maybe I can add you to the project. > > My freshmeat ID is jfuerth. You've got permissions now. --Josh
On Friday 03 April 2009 13:57:39 Jonathan Fuerth wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > > On 4/3/09 9:07 AM, Jonathan Fuerth wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Last July, I made a little utility to help remind people when the > >> various 3rd-party sites with information about PostgreSQL have > >> out-of-date information. This utility itself is working fine, but I'm > >> the only one being notified! As a result, two of the three monitored > >> sites have been out of date for some time now. > > > > Ah. Yeah, you need it to notify me and Robert Treat, since we're the > > ones with the ability to update stuff. > > You are now on the notification list! > > I'll wait for confirmation from Robert before adding him, just because > I know I'd be a little put off if someone I don't know started > spamming me without my specific request. > Actually Devrim is the one who usually does the updates, so you should really add him; though feel free to add me if needed. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:07 -0400, Jonathan Fuerth wrote: > SourceForge: > <http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=9764> > needs update! Done. -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org
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2009/4/4 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>: > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:07 -0400, Jonathan Fuerth wrote: >> SourceForge: >> <http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=9764> >> needs update! > > Done. Great! May I add you to the nag list so you get earlier warning next time? -Jonathan
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:00 -0400, Jonathan Fuerth wrote:
> Great! May I add you to the nag list so you get earlier warning next
> time?
Ok. Thanks.
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE
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