This is a huge improvement over GBorg! I feel much more comfortable
with this than I ever did with GBorg. GBorg always seemed very
unfriendly and the crusty look and feel at first made me wonder how
legitimate it was as a source for serious projects. I realize now that
it housed some great projects but I think the new GForge based site will
be much, much better especially for people new to postgres.
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> PostgreSQL's new collaboration site for associated projects, pgFoundry,
> also known as projects.postgresql.org, is up and running at
> http://www.pgfoundry.org/. This is the beginning of our transition from
> our own GBorg to a framework which is maintained and improved by a broad
> external community -- GForge. And of course it runs on PostgreSQL.
>
> GForge offers us the following features over GBorg:
> -- A glossy new look
> -- Multiple search interfaces
> -- Multiple catagorizations for each project
> -- User-driven project and programmer ratings
> -- Project "job openings"
> -- ability to support project "home pages" (limited to static HTML
> right now)
> -- surveys
>
> Right now, we are taking new projects only. Next week, we hope to start
> porting old projects from GBorg, on a strictly voluntary basis. New
> projects already on pgFoundry include plperlNG, framewerk, pathetic.org,
> and my2postgres. Your new project is welcome!
>
> If you logged in with GBorg before April 18, 2004, your login has been
> copied over from Gborg, and you can just use it. If you are a recent
> GBorg user, you will need to create a new login.
>
> Over the next few months, we will be enabling the following features (all
> of which currently have some bugs)
> -- Code Snippets: A library to share small scripts and functions,
> like Roberto's old "PL/pgSQL Library", but supporting multiple
> languages;
> -- lightweight personal blogs for developers
> -- PostgreSQL databases for each project
>
> So, if you've been holding on to a new project idea, please create it now!
> Your new project will be accessable as <projname>.projects.postgresql.org
> as well as through pgFoundry navigation.
>
> Please contact us at admins@pgfoundry.org if you can't log in or run into
> other issues connecting or using the site.
>
> pgFoundry is online due to the efforts of Andrew Dunstan, Gavin Roy, Josh
> Berkus, Marc Fournier and Chris Ryan, with help from GForge's Tim Perdue.
>
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