Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.navpoint.com [162.33.245.46]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f91J54n54153 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:05:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.10.1) id f91J4Qi17435; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:04:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200110011904.f91J4Qi17435@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: CVS changes In-Reply-To: <25812.1001962960@sss.pgh.pa.us> "from Tom Lane at Oct 1, 2001 03:02:40 pm" To: Tom Lane Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:04:26 -0400 (EDT) CC: Thomas Lockhart , Vince Vielhaber , Peter Eisentraut , "Marc G. Fournier" , PostgreSQL Development X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL90 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200110/78 X-Sequence-Number: 13820 > Thomas Lockhart writes: > >> Not everyone has sgml tools on their local machine, do they? > > > But everyone committing changes to docs does, or should have, sgml tools > > on *their* machines. Right?? > > I think it's a bad idea to create such a policy; anything we do that > raises the bar for docs contributions will just mean that we have less > and worse documentation. Hasn't our past policy always been "submit > whatever you want, even plain text, and we'll fix the markup later"? > > If you want to see the effects of such a policy, you need look no > further than Jan, who still has not committed one line of documentation > about the pgstats views because he doesn't want to be bothered with > SGML. > > If Bruce wants to expend a lot of cycles on his machine to provide fast > turnaround of docs changes, that's fine with me. I also have the SGML build log with errors in _red_! Nifty feature. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026