Re: "current" interactive docs busted - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: "current" interactive docs busted
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Msg-id 28020.1104938891@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: "current" interactive docs busted  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>>> From a "just had an idea" point of view, if the dev docs allowed
>>> comments, it might make for an interesting way of getting people to
>>> review and contribute to them prior to each official release.

> Would the idea make sense when we're not in release mode? I mean Dave
> had loaded the docs included with RC1, but once 8.0 goes out this would
> mean loading docs that would have to be built from cvs every day (or
> maybe even more often than that). I see issues with page names and
> content changing during development that make me unsure how useful this
> would be in practice.

Good point.  And it wouldn't be a whole lot better in "release mode",
either, because we tend to make pushes on the documentation during that
timeframe.  I did some rearrangement just a few days ago ...

            regards, tom lane

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