Re: [Pgweb] r2038 - trunk/portal/tools/pwn

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Pgweb] r2038 - trunk/portal/tools/pwn
Date: 2008-04-08 20:33:14
Message-ID: 994723B398875EEA1C9BCE6D@ganymede.hub.org
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- --On Tuesday, April 08, 2008 09:41:21 -0700 Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
wrote:

> Alvaro,
>
>> It is offensive to me that people is now disregarding the fact that
>> Postgres is an official alias.
>>
>
> An alias (or nickname) doesn't get used for the title of pages on
> www.postgresql.org, or in the docs. That's really the difference between an
> alias and an official name.
>
> Of course, this may not be that consequetial since everyone seems to refer to
> Postgre(SQL) Weekly News as "PWN". I know that, despite reading it most
> weeks for the last 6 months, this is the first time I noticed.
>
> So, thinking about this further, I think this should be up to the web team on
> the amount of naming consistency they want to enforce -- WWW committers can
> always change the page title after David posts it.. I don't really think
> it's a core decision, and how's core going to give David "orders" anyway?
> What do we do if he doesn't follow them? Put him on KP detail?

Well, consider DAvid himself has stated "if core tells me to, I will change it"
publicly, sounds to me like alot of egg on his face if he didn't follow such
...

I wonder how hard it would be to add a filter to pgsql-announce to do:

s/postgres /PostgreSQL/gi :)

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