From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Doc reference of contrib modules
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:33:04 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <201101250333.p0P3X4d19935@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28232.1295914016@sss.pgh.pa.us>
[ repost with compressed diff]
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Now that our /contrib documentation is in our SGML manual, I want to
> > update our docs to link to the actual contrib module documentation,
> > rather than just referencing contrib/module_name. We used to have to do
> > that when we only had READMEs, but now we can do better.
>
> > Patch attached, and I have a github branch of this too:
>
> This proposed patch seems quite inconsistent. You have removed the term
> "contrib" in some places and not others. I'm fine with just referring
> to stuff as "the so-and-so module" without use of the word "contrib",
> but if that's what we're going to do then all the references should look
> like that.
OK, I found a few more places; new patch attached. I also updated
github:
https://github.com/bmomjian/postgres/compare/master...contrib_links> Also, I see some places where you removed the word contrib *without*
> turning the reference into a link. I think that's a seriously bad idea,
> since it leaves the reader with no hint of where to look in our
Well, the only place I did that was with tsearch2, and I had already
linked to it in the paragraph above so it seemed duplicative to do it
again. I did call it "module". You can see the result here:
http://momjian.us/tmp/pgsql/textsearch-migration.html
Suggestions?
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +
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