Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Time to scale up?

["Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > > I was just thinking of it, and kinda surprised nobody else has ... why 
> > > > not add a section to http://www.postgresql.org's main page for it?  We 
> > > > have two sections now: Latest News and Upcoming Events ... why not add a 
> > > > third one under that includes Latest News from pgFoundry?  that way, when 
> > > > a release happens, or project is added, its very prominently displayed on 
> > > > our main page?
> > > Honestly, until it carries a postgresql.org domain, ..... it will always 
> > > be a second class citizen except to those in the know.
> >
> > You mean like http://planetpostgresql.org?  I've been wondering a long
> > time why it isn't http://planet.postgresql.org/ like every other project
> > I know.
>
> Well that is a very good point, because I have always considered 
> planetpostgresql not a part of the PostgreSQL project. I hadn't even 
> considered that it is a postgresql project until just now.

Just curious, but why does it have to be *.postgresql.org to be considered 
official?  Isn't official what we make it ... ?  It should be prominently 
linked *from* the main web site, but shouldn't *have* to be a subdomain of 
... pgFoundry should have, I think, a more prominent link in the Weekly 
News stuff ... we could also add the various web sites, individually, and 
with short blurbs, to the mailing list tips ...

The thing is, everyone spends their time putting pgFoundry down as being 
'second class' ... of course everyone else is going to consider it such 
also ... it isn't second class, nor was it ever meant to be ... if ppl 
promoted, pushed and advertised it more, it would be as 'second class' as 
common to go to as CPAN is for Perl ...

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