From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <201006302323.o5UNN2L05846@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
In-Reply-To: <19597.1277939783@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:23:01 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Rafael Martinez wrote:
> >> I am sending you a proposal with 13 diagrams to include in the manual so
> >> we can get an idea of how it will be. If it gets approved I will spend
> >> more time creating and including other diagrams and improving the build
> >> process for including figures into the manual.
> 
> > Great!
> 
> Where are the DIA sources for these?  It's impossible to evaluate how
> maintainable these will be without seeing the source code.

OK, I put the dia sources online:

	http://momjian.us/expire/pgsql-docs/dia/

They are XML files.

> > Also, there are two images that need to be updated for every major
> > release;  is that something we want to commit to doing?
> 
> -1 on that.  The timeline thing is *certainly* not worth the maintenance
> effort, if indeed it even belongs in the docs at all (it looks more like
> marketing material).  I think the lines-of-code diagram is not worth its
> keep either.

Sure, I can remove them, unless someone else wants to argue for their
inclusion.

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