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To: Steve Atkins <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Images in the official documentation
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:45:10 +0800
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On 26 February 2018 at 04:12, Steve Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Writing SVG by hand maybe doesn't seem the best idea.
>
> I understand the attraction to people who want to store everything as
> diffable text, but images of this sort are unlikely to get updated by
> others, which means they're unlikely to be maintained as the things they're
> intended to document change. It also means that the people best suited to
> generating diagrams are the least likely to do so, and vice-versa.
>
>
>
Yeah, I think it'd just effectively preserve the status quo by rendering
anyone who's willing to add images and designs to the docs unable - or
unlikely to be willing - to do so.
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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
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