| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: cvs chapters in our docs |
| Date: | 2009-11-26 15:38:04 |
| Message-ID: | 2144.1259249884@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> I have to say I'm not really impressed by the idea of removing things
>> from our documentation and replacing them with pages on the wiki. The
>> documentation is better-written and easier to navigate.
> I agree in general, but information about version control isn't really
> part of the product. For example, if we switch from CVS to Git, and
> decide to pull the plug on the CVS server (hypotethically; in reality
> I'm sure we'd leave the CVS server around for historical purposes), the
> information becomes obsolete.
If our docs are supposed to cover only information that's not subject
to change, they'll become quite short. I agree with Robert that moving
the info from the SGML docs to the wiki isn't an improvement.
regards, tom lane
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