From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200006121658.MAA01290@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Postgres docs
In-Reply-To: <20000407175953.A10347@office.vi.net> "from Richard Poole at Apr
	7, 2000 05:59:53 pm"
To: Richard Poole <richard.poole@vi.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:58:36 -0400 (EDT)
CC: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu,
 PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgresql.org>
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Can someone give this person assistance in getting started with the
docs?


> I'll say it again, guys: give me some pointers to what to do and I'll
> happily put some time in on the docs. I don't know lots of PostgreSQL
> internals stuff, but I know C and some DocBook and I have been known
> to write manpages, so I must know nroff too. Obviously I can't learn
> large amounts about particular subsystems in time for 7.0 but I can do
> things like adding a section to a manpage to describe a new option. I
> don't really want just to pick something from Bruce's posted list and
> go at it because I might happen to pick something either that someone
> else was already doing or that was non-obviously difficult or
> complicated. So I'd like some direction from you guys, or whoever [1].
> Is there a structure to the documentation people even theoretically? Is
> one of you or someone else the Documentation Coordinator, with or without
> the capitalisation? I can't find any information about this.
> 
> Anyway, if you think my potential usefulness at this point outweighs the
> time spent allocating something to me and checking it afterwards, let
> me know. If it doesn't, fair enough.
> 
> Richard
> 
> [1] As I'm claiming to be able to write, I'll point out that I know that
> this should strictly be "whomever".
> 


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