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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:35:00 -0700
From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
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Subject: Re: Ongoing issues with the downloads page
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Stefan,

> under "commercial software"(ie.:
> http://www.postgresql.org/download/commercial) but I guess you were
> actually taking about the small listing on the very end of the
> "Downloads" main page (http://www.postgresql.org/download/) - right ?

Correct, since that's where other OS platforms are listed.  If RH & EDB 
are there, Solaris ought to be there.

>> 2) Someone added "TrafficReports" under a new category "Reporting". This
>> is unreasonable favoritism towards a single reporting project. Either we
>> need to list at least 6 of the OSS & commercial reporting tools which
>> support PostgreSQL, or delete the category alltogther (I support the
>> latter).
> 
> not so sure about that category either but are there more reporting
> tools out there that are worth mentioning ?

Only a few dozen.  JasperReports, OpenRPT, Pentaho, BusinessObjects, 
Microstrategy, BIRT, etc, etc.

Overall, I think adding stuff to this page (and frankly, elsewhere on 
the web site) needs to be discussed on list (or at least announced) and 
not just arbitrarily added.  When we put one product in a category on 
the page and not others it gives the appearance of favoritism.  Also, by 
adding something like a reporting category with only one entry in it, we 
give the impression that it's the *only* reporting tool which works with 
PostgreSQL.

For reporting tools specifically, it should be removed from the 
downloads page and added to the Tools page, or get its own Reporting 
page.  There are too many reporting tools which work with PostgreSQL to 
have it on the main downloads page.

I also question moving the /commercial stuff to a permanent page rather 
than techdocs.  This list of compatible tools is *far* to volatile to 
depend on CVS access to update it.  Please move it back to Techdocs.

--Josh