On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 18:34 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > I am not sure this is even relevant honestly. Its a portal page just
> as
> > google is a portal page. The ability for a project/company/person to
> > maintain the software they have listed is up to them not us.
>
> Yes, but then they should have their own web pages.
>
> Quasi official releases should be the source release and all
> packagings
> that follow the pgsql-packagers routine and policies. That we have
> pretty good control over.
This is a good argument. If you look at the page the first thing it
links to are binary packages for the core distribution. If we click the
linux link, we are not greeted with OS packages or direct download
from .Org mirrors.
We are greeted with the EDB one click installer.
IMO, we should be pushing .Org->OS->Third Party so the page would look
like this:
Download PostgreSQL from a mirror:
* 8.3 - Current Stable * Source * Binaries (Linux, Win32)
* 7.4 - Soon to be EOL * 8.0 - You really should upgrade * 8.1 - Decent release * 8.2 - Better... (see
8.3above)
Third Party releases and distributions:
* EDB one click installer * YUM Repository (Fedora/RHEL/CentOS)
Live CDs and appliances * pg-live.info * Turnkey linux (as an example)
> Everything else is just someone's random stuff, and while I have no
> issue with that being listed somewhere on the web site, it should be
> a
> separate page from the quasi official releases.
In your example Third Party releases and Live CDs would be links to
separate pages. I would be fine with that.
However there is one big problem, the YUM repository and the EDB one
click installers are very popular and provide a big service to our
community.
Do we really want to relegate them to the sundries of a secondary page?
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
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