Le 05/20/2011 04:15 PM, Dave Page a écrit :
> As most of you will know, the pgFoundry system is in dire need of a
> huge amount of work. It's running an extremely old version of GForge,
> which has been hacked about to run on FreeBSD and is almost certainly
> full of potential security issues. In order to bring the system up to
> date we would need to do at least the following:
>
> - Figure out what functionality changes our version has over the latest release.
>
> - Install the latest version of GForge on our new hosting platform.
>
> - Re-implement the code changes, if still required.
>
> - Figure out how to migrate all the user accounts and related data
> from FreeBSD to Debian.
>
> - Figure out how to migrate all the data from the old system to the new.
>
> We've had numerous attempts in the past to do this *before* we had the
> new hosting platform, all of which failed miserably, due to the lack
> of people with the time and interest in doing the work.
>
> Following some discussions last night at PGCon, I'd therefore like to
> propose that we deprecate and eventually shutdown the PGFoundry
> service. This would involve:
>
> - Emailing all users with the details of the shutdown timetable.
>
> - Suggest users migrate to GitHub or Sourceforge, depending on their needs.
>
> - Migrate "core" projects (such as psqlODBC and the press/advocacy
> project) to mailing lists in postgresql.org (if required) and to
> git.postgresql.org.
>
> - Offer other users tarballs of their CVS repos, mail archives and downloads.
>
> - After 6 months, shut down the system and permanently archive it.
>
> Comments?
>
Seems a really good idea.
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