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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:51:03 -0800
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Robert,

> on techdocs there is a todo.php file which is probably completely bogus.
> theres some indecision on the direction of this site. I would like to
> convert the whole thing to CVS, including the wiki pages that comprised the
> guides section.  others are testing using bricolage to make a new site at
> which time some of the data would be transitioned over. 

Yeah, that's me & Elein & David F.   We feel pretty strongly that PostgreSQL 
needs a place where users can contribute to documentation and help other 
users without learning HTML, SGML, or CVS.   Otherwise, we're throwing away a 
lot of potential contributions and ignoring a lot of the community that wants 
to help but find the barrier to entry too high.

I also see Techdocs as a "test site" for maybe moving more parts of 
postgresql.org to a sophisticated CMS; while CVS is nice for version control, 
it does nothing to help control style consistency, dynamic linking, or 
multi-lingualism, which must all still be done 100% manually.

However, we've been real sluggards about getting this up & running.   So if 
you get the other stuff re-built and we're still lagging, then you'll have 
come up with a very persuasive argument to do things your way.

>  i happen to think
> there are several files on this site that should be moved to the main www
> site, i'd be happy to expand on that if people start doing work on it.

Probably, yes.
 
> really the most important thing here is that we get some movement on the
> site in order to ditch the old VM the site lives on and get it on our new
> web VM.

On techdocs?   What part of that needs to be migrated?

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco