Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:43:47 +0100
From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>,
	PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Move the developers wiki?
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:25:53AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:16:33 +0000
> "Dave Page" <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hackers,
> > 
> > As you may have noticed
> > (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-03/msg00470.php) we
> > now have a wiki at wiki.postgresql.org that is replacing techdocs
> > which unfortunately never worked quite as we had hoped in it's current
> > form.
> > 
> > It has been suggested by members of the web team that as the new site
> > has been setup on a dedicated VM and has been properly integrated with
> > the rest of our online infrastructure (unlike the current developer
> > wiki which is basically a quick 'n' dirty install on an already
> > over-utilised VM), that we should consider moving the developer wiki
> > into a dedicated area on it.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on whether thats a good or bad idea? Any objections?
> 
> Not an objection but an observation. The developer wiki seems to be a
> catchall for contributors to put various stuff on. There is patch
> status, advocacy policies, release policies etc...
> 
> Based on your description of wiki.postgresql.org it is supposed to be
> a replacement for techdocs.
> 
> To me, they have different purposes.

Well, we could just add a link to a subsection that does those things, no?

//Magnus