2009/12/31 Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Robert Treat
> <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> One thing I learned doing the gborg migration/shutdown was that everyone uses
>> the existing infrastructure differently, and the relative importance of any of
>> it seems to fluctuate on how much work they will have to do to keep something.
>
> One thing I learned form the gborg migration was that we should never
> have done it in the first place. GBorg worked well, and was well
> maintained by it's original author. Why on earth we had to move to
> gforge is still beyond me.
I assume it was the usual "if we run an off-the-shelf product, it will
be much less work". That we all know well both from community and
professional experience usually isn't true once you move past the
sales pitch :-)
I definitely agree. Which is why I say that if we're moving off
gforge, we're moving to Somebody Elses Problem, not to another
platform maintained by *us*.
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