Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([192.204.191.242]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f91J4rn53777 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:04:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f91J2eI25815; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:02:40 -0400 (EDT) To: Thomas Lockhart cc: Bruce Momjian , Vince Vielhaber , Peter Eisentraut , "Marc G. Fournier" , PostgreSQL Development Subject: Re: CVS changes In-reply-to: <3BB8B9EB.60D492E0@fourpalms.org> References: <200110010032.f910WVU02243@candle.pha.pa.us> <3BB8B9EB.60D492E0@fourpalms.org> Comments: In-reply-to Thomas Lockhart message dated "Mon, 01 Oct 2001 18:46:03 -0000" Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 15:02:40 -0400 Message-ID: <25812.1001962960@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Archive-Number: 200110/77 X-Sequence-Number: 13819 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. regards, tom lane