Re: [pgsql-www] Fix for PG History web page - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

On 01/01/2016 09:45 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 01/01/2016 06:41 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>> On 01/01/2016 06:47 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
>>> <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc <mailto:stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      moving to -advocacy because I think it better belongs there from a
>>>      discussion pov
>>>
>>>      On 12/23/2015 05:50 AM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>>>      >
>>>      >
>>>      > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us
>>> <mailto:bruce@momjian.us>
>>>       > <mailto:bruce@momjian.us <mailto:bruce@momjian.us>>> wrote:
>>>       >
>>>       >     Our PG history web pages says talks about Postgres 8.0, which
>>>      seems kind
>>>       >     of old at this point:
>>>       >
>>>       > http://www.postgresql.org/about/history/
>>>       >
>>>       >             Today, PostgreSQL's user base is larger than ever and
>>>      includes a
>>>       >             sizeable group of large corporations who use it in
>>>      demanding
>>>       >             environments. Some of these companies such as
>>> Afilias and
>>>       >     Fujitsu have
>>>       >             made significant contributions to PostgreSQL's
>>>      development.
>>>       >     And, true to
>>>       >             its roots, it continues to improve in both
>>>      sophistication and
>>>       >             performance, now more than ever. Version 8.0 is
>>>      PostgreSQL's
>>>       >     long
>>>       >                                                      ---
>>>       >             awaited debut into the enterprise database market,
>>>      bringing
>>>       >     features
>>>       >             such as tablespaces, Java stored procedures, point in
>>>      time
>>>       >     recovery, and
>>>       >             nested transactions (savepoints). With it came a long
>>>       >     awaited feature
>>>       >             --- a native Windows port.
>>>       >
>>>       >     Can someone update this?  Can I submit a patch?
>>>       >
>>>       >
>>>       > I always think, that our history page is very outdated and
>>>      requires more
>>>       > addition than you proposed. I have nothing against mentioning
>>> Afilias
>>>       > and Fujtsu, but then why we didn't acknowledged other companies ?
>>>      Also,
>>>       > I think, better to discuss such things in -advocacy mailing list.
>>>       >
>>>       > btw, I think we missed great Elein posts
>>>       >
>>>
>>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20041203184254.F6767@cookie.varlena.com
>>>
>>>
>>>      In light of the upcoming 9.5 release it would be awfully nice if
>>>      somebody could work on updating /about:
>>>
>>>        * The "History" page is very outdated and clearly needs some love
>>>      * the "Awards" page is something we should imho remove completely
>>>      (clearly awards are something people care less and less about
>>> given our
>>>      maturity and seeing the most "recent" award on our website being from
>>>      2008 is imho actually very bad for our advocacy
>>>      * The case studies are very outdated and in a fair amount of cases
>>>      confusing - I think we should also remove them given nobody seem
>>> to have
>>>      the time and enthusiasm to keep them at least somewhat current,
>>> same for
>>>      the "featured users" list (most recent entry there seems to be from
>>>      ~2006 and some places dont even exist any more)
>>>
>>>
>>> These things are all on the TODO list of the folks who offered to work
>>> on the website redesign. As I'm sure Bruce is very well aware, since was
>>> present in the meeting that they did. However, per the result of that
>>> discussion, *their* focus is to work on the design first and the content
>>> later.
>>>
>>> However, that of course doesn't prevent *others* from working on the
>>> actual content. Patches are always welcome, and as those are all static
>>> pages they shouldn't break any of the redesign work.
>>
>> Where is the entry point for doing patches?
>>
>> Or is there some link that describes at least in outline form a
>> procedure for working on the Web site content?
>
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgweb.git;a=summary
>
> and more specificially:
>
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgweb.git;a=tree;f=docs;hb=HEAD

Thanks.

>
>
>
> Stefan
>


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Adrian Klaver
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