Re: PG Collaborative structure is ready for initial - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Justin Clift
Subject Re: PG Collaborative structure is ready for initial
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Msg-id 3DCFCBAF.3C9D10E3@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: PG Collaborative structure is ready for initial testing  ("Shridhar Daithankar" <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>)
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Richard Huxton wrote:
>
<snip>
> > It's easy to manually create users in Zope and restrict the editing or
> > creation of pages to them, but our best long term situation is to allow
> > the people who have already registered to make use of that.
>
> What about people who've subscribed/posted to pgsql-advocacy/docs? All a new
> user would need to do is post an "I intend to write X" message - email gets
> slurped and account created. Gives somewhere to discuss new docs, point out
> existing stuff etc.

Not sure what you mean.  :-/

<snip>
> > A feature that needs to be added is the ability for people to
> > "subscribe" to a page, so that whenever the page is changed it gets
> > emailed out to them.  This is already possible, but will take about an
> > hour or so to read through the docs (have the right ones already marked)
> > then setup.  It's important to get done before the new infrastructure is
> > announced to the general public.
>
> Two things I noted when I was thinking about this the other day:
>
> 1. A "diff" function for two versions of the same document

Good thought.  With the present collaborative infrastructure, one of the
options that can be turned on (and probably worth doing so) is that when
someone edits a page directly, it's actually a "diff" of it that's
emailed to all the people that have "subscribed" to that page.  Not sure
that this is what you meant, but worth mentioning.

> 2. Some way of identifying docs that need updating when 7.3, 7.4, 8.0 come
> out.

Good point.  Maybe someone embedding a tag in docs that can be scanned
for, showing the PostgreSQL version they're relevant for?

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


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