From: Elein <elein@nextbus.com>
To: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: interactive docs
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:56:30 -0800
Message-ID: <3C447B5E.2060903@nextbus.com> (raw)
References: <3C3F8FE0.912D0294@nextbus.com>
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Roberto Mello wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:22:40PM -0800, Elein wrote:
>
>>As a wiki fan, I'm sorry to say I hate the interactive pages.
>>They are yet another forum for people who should be asking
>>questions in the mailing lists. They are very distracting.
>>If there were a genuine doc note in that mess, I would never
>>see it.
>>
>
> Are you volunteering to moderate doc notes? That would mean you'd have to
> scan them once in a while and remove questions, directing questioners to
> the lists.
>
>
>>If you were to create a question/answer wiki it would probably
>>help a lot of people and ideally people would only really put doc
>>notes and examples on the interactive doc pages.
>>
>
> That's what mailing lists are for. Wikis have good uses, but so do mailing
> lists.
>
> -Roberto
>
>
If I were not the only moderator, I certainly could help.
Tell me how to do it and I'll try to be nice :-) and be
as attentive as my work allows.
While you all are listening, I also have an organization
suggestion. List the functions that operate on a data
type with the data type. Just a returns,function(args)
list would probably do. I rarely look up a data type without
jumping over to functions. A list of the functions
gives people a better idea of the uses and limitations
of a given datatype. (I understand this suggestion is
probably too late to be useful to 7.2 docs)
cheers,
elein
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