Re: Advocacy wiki

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:49:55AM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>> Trying to put together my "What's New in 8.3" lightning talk, I'm
>>>> surprised at the complete lack of advocacy resources. What little I
>>>> can find is spread all over the place.
>>>>
>>>> In order to make life easier for others who are creating PostgreSQL
>>>> presentations by providing links/copies of past presentations, as
>>>> well as useful images, etc. ISTM the best way to do this is with a wiki.
>>>>
>>>> So, should I setup some pages on the developer wiki for this, or
>>>> should we have a separate advocacy wiki? I'm leaning towards a
>>>> separate one so that anyone can add resources...
>>>
>>> I'm not going to comment on the general need. but if we're going to do
>>> that then please don't use the dev one, even though i see others already
>>> use it for such stuff. we absolutely do not want even more stuff loading
>>> up that machine at the moment. It's bad enough having the dev wiki where
>>> it is.
>> It wasn't long ago that we 'rebranded' the developer wiki as a project
>> wiki specifically to allow Josh B. To use if for advocacy purposes - in
>> fact, the opening para now reads:
>>
>> "Please note that this is a PostgreSQL developer resource for use by
>> people hacking the PostgreSQL source code or working on other areas of
>> the project such as advocacy or the websites."
>>
>> I forget which list it was discussed on, but I'm pretty sure even you
>> thought it was the best idea.
>
> Actually, at the time we were discussing either temporary or "just for
> -advocacy internals". Maybe that's what's being referred to at this time,
> in which case I'm fine with it. But I read this as information that's for
> end-users as well, and we specifically said we don't want that on the wiki.
> (It was for some reason discussed on -advocacy instead of -www :P)

No, stuff for end users was specifically excluded from the wiki from the
outset - and that should remain the case. We don't want 'unofficial'
docs springing up all over the place - that's what techdocs is for.

/D