Received: from localhost (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8774F9F9D07; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:52:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68806-08; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:52:43 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.121]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF589F94DC; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:52:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.10.103] (really [69.134.97.109]) by cdptpa-omta01.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20070829225247.CCZ83.cdptpa-omta01.mail.rr.com@[192.168.10.103]>; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:52:47 +0000 Message-ID: <46D5F8BF.30703@dunslane.net> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:52:47 -0400 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070719 Fedora/1.0.9-2.fc6 pango-text SeaMonkey/1.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Albert Cervera i Areny CC: Josh Berkus , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Contrib modules documentation online References: <200708290157.07968.albert@nan-tic.com> <200708291009.07942.josh@agliodbs.com> <200708300037.31851.albert@nan-tic.com> In-Reply-To: <200708300037.31851.albert@nan-tic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200708/38 X-Sequence-Number: 4385 Albert Cervera i Areny wrote: >> I'm very strongly in favor of having this documentation. However, I think >> it might make sense to put "Contrib Modules" as a section under either >> "Reference" or "Appendices". Also, I don't think it's necessary to make >> each command option a separate subchapter, but I can see how that would be >> hard to avoid in an automated system. >> > > It's not an automated system, README files have different structures so it's > all manual work. That's why I asked how you think it should be organized. > Anyone else thinks we should put it in Reference or Appendixes? > I would far rather have a new top level heading. Something like "Standard Modules and Tools". (Please avoid the use of the word "contrib"). If not, than as a sub-chapter of "References". I don't think it belongs in the Appendixes. cheers andrew