public inbox for [email protected]  
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Cc: Palle Girgensohn <[email protected]>
Cc: Pierre-Emmanuel André <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Some restructuring of the download section
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:11:06 +0800
Message-ID: <CABUevEyVxQkdOiopGiyCB8Jys2WQrp21D87GPdpVz4_G-neP5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+OCxoz2frNmRPWBU_8yW=-mtNNrxoCdQVdXWAfBQTdqyx1WMw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CABUevExJ2zibPcT7VF+Zmxuz_aEu7HrHYEE5dV8uLcAeupYQgw@mail.gmail.com>
	<CA+OCxozjjWnoCR72Ed9J2mDvFjqtk8L0yr-R4pOSV_3N8KAo=w@mail.gmail.com>
	<CABUevEzhnOm4a6Ziq4VaGo-LQtry8Y3fVv6RbmFT+DYpF5PrLg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CA+OCxoyyNWKJrK3j2FKipt+nsu4sXLe0DLMUPrwe51PUdq0LJA@mail.gmail.com>
	<CABUevExq3QLPumAwfGrKyB-w35zMErdW=xJraty0B2oANbZ9ZQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CA+OCxozAD7D383VsPiL3qGYJWJZReD691wMB8NuQCJm1QH9BXg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CA+OCxoz2frNmRPWBU_8yW=-mtNNrxoCdQVdXWAfBQTdqyx1WMw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Citations please? I don't recall ever hearing of people running into
>>>> such problems. I still maintain that it should be pretty blindingly
>>>
>>> As I've said previously, it's mainly been from people who aren't on
>>> our lists, so I can't easily point there. I know it's up on the lists
>>> every now and then as well, but it's getting too late in the evening
>>> to spend time searching for that.
>>>
>>> I've heard it from customers. I've heard it from people I've met at
>>> conferences. I've heard it in IRC channels. I've heard it in
>>> usergroups.
>
> One other thought - presumably the people telling you this are not
> reading the bold text that's there at the moment? Which probably means
> those people aren't reading the rest of what's there either, so
> there's likely not much we can do to help them.

Well, it's certainly gone down since the warning was added :-) A
number of them had just done it, found the problem, fixed it
themselves and then took a chance to report it once they ran into
someone who actually works on the site...


> In other words, maybe they aren't the best people to consider when we
> think about anything other than simplifying those pages.

That's a pretty good point though, that still holds at least partially :)

-- 
 Magnus Hagander
 Me: http://www.hagander.net/
 Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/



view thread (35+ messages)  latest in thread

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: Some restructuring of the download section
  In-Reply-To: <CABUevEyVxQkdOiopGiyCB8Jys2WQrp21D87GPdpVz4_G-neP5g@mail.gmail.com>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox