Bricolage for TechDocs - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Steve Simms
Subject Bricolage for TechDocs
Date
Msg-id 1562.209.198.116.24.1074564274.squirrel@www.derxis.com
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In response to Re: Bricolage: Impressive  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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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.


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