Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05176339F3; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:54:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04142-10; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:54:27 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5590B6324FE; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:54:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (200-126-91-44.bk6-dsl.surnet.cl [200.126.91.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n29L0mJv018930 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:00:54 -0700 Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A508847CDE; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:54:10 -0300 (CLST) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:54:10 -0300 From: Alvaro Herrera To: "Joshua D. Drake" Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner , PostgreSQL www , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: the sad state of our FAQs Message-ID: <20090309205410.GG12932@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <49B27F0E.2050504@kaltenbrunner.cc> <20090307195305.GB3821@alvh.no-ip.org> <1236630078.4649.41.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1236630078.4649.41.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:00:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200903/58 X-Sequence-Number: 16712 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 16:53 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > I proposed this previously but got no support from Bruce who is supposed > > to be the FAQ maintainer, and thus I ended up doing nothing. Therefore > > I now offer to do the job required to move them to XML Docbook and allow > > translatability using xml2po or something similar. > > I would like to see us have a single documentation standard though. Our > core docs are still Docbook SGML which is a bit different :( Other than > that, I am all for it. Magnus has extor^Wconvinced me over IM to drop this idea, which means less work for me. Yay! -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support