Received: from localhost (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E8B9FB52E for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:49:05 -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 08149-05 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:49:02 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from developer.pgadmin.org (developer.pgadmin.org [63.246.23.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6B99FB51F for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:49:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: from snake.local ([62.232.55.118]) (authenticated bits=0) by developer.pgadmin.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6PFmVDm022488 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:48:33 GMT Message-ID: <46A770E5.60207@postgresql.org> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:48:53 +0100 From: Dave Page User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Macintosh/20070716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alvaro Herrera CC: Magnus Hagander , decibel@decibel.org, pgsql-www@postgresql.org, Greg Smith Subject: Re: Advocacy wiki References: <20070725054838.71190DCC143@svr2.hagander.net> <46A700A3.40903@postgresql.org> <20070725081046.GA5612@svr2.hagander.net> <46A706BC.9040702@postgresql.org> <20070725082936.GA3935@alvh.no-ip.org> <46A70AFB.7050006@postgresql.org> <20070725151915.GA2581@alvh.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <20070725151915.GA2581@alvh.no-ip.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 OpenPGP: url=http://www.pgadmin.org/pgp/davepage.pgp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200707/53 X-Sequence-Number: 12200 Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Greg Smith added to Cc: > > Dave Page wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>> Dave Page wrote: >>>> No, stuff for end users was specifically excluded from the wiki from the >>>> outset - and that should remain the case. We don't want 'unofficial' docs >>>> springing up all over the place - that's what techdocs is for. >>> Doesn't that ring the bell that maybe techdocs is not as great as we >>> think? If people are desperately looking at alternatives, that may mean >>> something. What is it? >> Afaik there are no outstanding bugs or feature requests with Techdocs - >> however it does require moderation before docs are published. Perhaps thats >> what people are trying to avoid? > > Maybe people don't _realize_ that techdocs is "a wiki", with on-line > editability and all. Why else would be Greg Smith resisting moving his > MySQL doc to it right away? > It's not a wiki though - it's designed for a single person to modify and submit a document for inclusion once moderated. This is the case for much of the techdocs content which may be presentations people have produced, or howto's they've written during their daily work (perhaps whilst figuring out a migration from another DBMS). It's not suitable for collaborating while writing the document, but the wiki is. Greg has already said that once written, he intends to move the doc to techdocs - that sounds like a fine plan to me. Regards, Dave.