Re: Sourceforge on Oracle?

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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