Re: The Web Sites (Was: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Gl...)

Also in addition to the advocacy & main page conflicts, there
are conflicts with the techdocs pages that I've raised in the
past. I am hoping the new portal will really help put things
in their place because these scattered sites are pretty
confusing to people looking for definitive information
and finding a mixed bag.

I am also going to ask if we could put a link from postgresql.org
over to General Bits (the pgsql-general column)
after I had a few issues out and the kinks worked out
and everyone was not so swamped with the release and
the new portal. This is also the kind of thing that goes with
what seems to be the meat of the postgresql.org web pages.

elein

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 05:54, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Justin Clift wrote:
> > Dave Page wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > > Strangely I was just thinking the same thing. If all the info is on
> > > advocacy, then what exactly will be left on the main site? Idocs?
> >
> > Good point, and worth thinking about then.
>
> I think we're all in pseudo-agreement here ... we need clearer lines drawn
> ... IMHO, the *main* thing that is on www.postgresql.org is the docs ...
> all the docs, not just idocs ... IMHO, techdocs is the tutorials and
> guides that are developed/provided independantly of the core documentation
> ...
>
> www.postgresql.org, once its ready, is going to point to the new portal,
> after which what is now www.postgresql.org is going to need to tighten
> itself up to reduce redundancy ... I'd personally like to see the iDocs
> stuff somehow used more heavily then I think it is now ... one of the neat
> things about it is the ability, like with the PHP site, to add
> comments/examples.
>
> I think the only limitation that I've heard of anyone talking about as
> concerns idocs is the search facility is a bit weak, which is actually one
> of the reasons that I don't use it as often as I could ...
>
> xfunc-c.html
> release-6-1.html
> release-6-2.html
> tutorial-table.html
> datatype.html
> release-6-3.html
> release-6-1-1.html
> plpgsql-trigger.html
> setindex.html
> release-6-5-2.html
> regress-evaluation.html
> plpgsql-declarations.html
> plpgsql-expressions.html
> release-0-03.html
> release-6-5.html
> release-7-0-1.html
> release-7-0.html
> release-7-1.html
> release-7-2.html
> routine-vacuuming.html
> rules-insert.html
> runtime-config.html
> sql-comment.html
> functions-datetime.html
> functions-formatting.html
> datatype-datetime.html
> sql-createtable.html
> sql-expressions.html
> sql-keywords-appendix.html
> sql-set.html
> triggers.html
>
> would it be possible to replace the .html file with the page Title? That
> way, for instance, I can choose to go to 'Date/Time Types' instead of
> going datatype-datetimes.html?
>
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