From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Richard <poboxcanada@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Annotatable on-line documentation
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 01:30:30 +1100
Message-ID: <3A8E8B06.13F0840C@svana.org> (raw)
References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102162134140.1009-100000@peter.localdomain>
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> Richard writes:
>
> > Would this lighten the work load on the folk that are
> > currently maintaining the docs? Would it lighten the
> > work load for the core developers? Would it stimulate
> > the development of richer documetation? Would it draw
> > some of the load off the mailing lists?
>
> My concerns are mostly that that kind of thing would be abused as a
> discussion forum, the quality of the comments is quite low on average, and
> the added efforts to weed out the posts on a regular basis seem
> prohibite.
>
> I don't see any particular advantage coming from this that couldn't be
> achieved in another way.
Well, one thing would be is that it would make it easier for other
people to submit changes to a particular page on the docs. You can just
go there and submit a change. Sending a patch much harder.
Maybe, as someone else suggested, a moderated one. That would stop the
discussion problem.
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com>
http://cupid.suninternet.com/~kleptog/
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