Re: pgFoundry Download URLs

Joshua D. Drake wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:0fdce962980773863e3b25e6150a5ffe@commandprompt.com" type="cite"><pre
wrap="">OnWed, 30 Dec 2009 22:05:41 +0100, Magnus Hagander <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:magnus@hagander.net"><magnus@hagander.net></a>
wrote: </pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">FWIW, both are AFAIK missing the "simple migration path" that Dave
was
asking for.   </pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
Not really... let the developers move it themselves.  </pre></blockquote><br /> I don't have a large data set, just a
coupleof dozen people I've talked to about this.  Based on some wild-ass extrapolation from those conversations, I
wouldventure that if one took a survey of every active pgfoundry maintainer, and told them "we're migrating to a better
andeasier to support system, but you'll lose all your active projects and you'll have to move them yourself to the new
hostmanually", votes would still be at least 10:1 in favor of that over the status quo.  I'd expect that if you
provisionedan officially sanctioned replacement candidate, the most popular projects would migrate to it in a minute
giventhe opportunity.  The idea that anyone is going to put more time into trying to maintain it boggles my mind.<br
/><br/> The real key as I see it is to never again choose from among anything but the most popular of such systems <br
/>available.  Pick one of the widely deployed solutions here, don't customize *anything*, keep up with updates to it,
andlet a larger slice of the rest of the world solve this problem.  Seriously--the most important criteria here is
maximizingthe odds that somebody else with a much larger use base is going to maintain and extend the underlying code
ofwhatever solution is used so this project doesn't have to.  A quick glance at the page Robert suggested:<br /><br
/><aclass="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities</a><br
/><br/> And sorting by real or estimated Alexa rank as a popularity estimate, where lower is more popular:<br /><br />
Sourceforge198<br /> Google Code 1000 (estimated, but unsuitable anyway so who cares)<br /> GitHub 2342<br /> CodePlex
3334<br/> Tigris.org 10896<br /> Launchpad 12268<br /><br /> Obviously these are not all suitable just based on basic
features,but I would argue that nothing else but the ones on this list are worth doing any work with.<br /><br /><pre
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