Bricolage for TechDocs

Josh Berkus said:
> If Steve is up to templating, I will happily work on porting articles.

I'd be happy to do the templating -- compared to the Mason code I normally
deal with, this should be simple. My hangup at the moment is coming up with
the structure. If Elein, Josh, etc. could help me come up with a revised set
of categories for the articles, that would be very helpful.

The existing TechDocs site looks like it was modified as articles were added,
with the result that I have a hard time finding things on that page. Now that
we have a fairly large number of articles, it seems like it would be worth
taking the time to take another look at the category structure.

Also, it might be worth moving pre-7.3 articles into their own subcategory --
maybe by having a set of categories for version-specific articles. When I
first visited the PostgreSQL sites, I thought the project was no longer in
active development because of the large number of old articles that were
prominently linked. This would help, as would getting new articles. :-) We
certainly shouldn't remove them altogether, though -- I, for one, was
maintaining a 7.1.1 install of PostgreSQL until a couple of months ago, and
those articles were helpful.

> Robert: since what Bric does is build HTML pages, it is entirely possible to
> "plug in" PHP applications as blocks of HTML text. Comments could be
> supported this way, as well as a Wiki (which I also believe we should have).

Correct. We'd just have the Bricolage "burner" include the relevant code to
fire up the relevant apps. This *will* impact our ability to have mirrors,
though, for the TechDocs site, I don't imagine this is terribly important.

Steve Simms
Database Developer & Administrator
Medical Media Systems, Inc.