Re: Interactive docs idea

From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "Greg Stark" <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Interactive docs idea
Date: 2005-04-14 07:56:45
Message-ID: E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E472C1CD@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Greg Stark
> Sent: 14 April 2005 04:54
> To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Interactive docs idea
>
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> writes:
>
> > I think it's an interesting idea to mail the comments to
> pgsql-docs, but
> > *please don't* start emulating the PHP behavior regarding comments
> > (leaving the "relevant" ones forever) :-( I think the PHP
> manuals are
> > very low quality because of the information in comments which really
> > belongs in the main text body (which is crappy in PHP's
> manual anyway
> > IMHO.)
>
> It seems that's not much of a danger -- the interactive
> Postgres documentation
> hardly gets any comments at all in the first place. It would be a big
> improvement if there were some way to encourage many more comments.

We can get from 2 - 10 a day I would guess. They get mailed to a closed
list for moderation.

Regards, Dave

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