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Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 13:03:14 -0600
From: Rick Gigger <rick@alpinenetworking.com>
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Subject: Re: pgFoundry Open For Business
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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.
> 
> ----
> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
> Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
> 
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