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To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up the Download options
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 09:27:12 -0400
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Hi Dave,
On 5/14/19 6:53 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 4:56 PM Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> However, before we do any removals, perhaps we reach out to all of the
> package maintainers to give them a chance to say "Yes we're no longer
> supporting it?"
>
>
> I'm inclined not to do that. My reasoning is that if we have to prod
> them to update builds once, we'll almost certainly have to do it again
> and will have to keep checking up on them. It's not like there aren't
> various ways people could keep up to date with our releases - and two of
> those third party packages are maintained by *very* active PG people.
That's fair. I would suggest, if the contact info is still valid, we at
least contact the maintainers to let them know we are removing their
packages as a courtesy.
>
> Fink is the one I might suggest giving some leeway to. Those packages
> are less than six months out of date, and the maintainer isn't (unlike
> the one for Brew and MacPorts) on the -packagers list - which I thought
> we considered a requirement for the "primary downloads".
WFM.
> This gets into a larger topic that I may (read: will) broach at PGCon
> (and what I feel this is leading to) is to create a design for the
> Downloads page that respects & uses the hierarchy you've developed but
> gives it a bit more modern feel. I've had some thoughts for how to carry
> this out and looking forward to discussing more.
>
>
> Bring mockups!
...probably more like sketches on a piece of paper :)
Jonathan
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