Thread: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL articles
I am CC'ing the docs list on this. Sounds like a nice idea. > If you want you could use a targabot so people could submit news itmes, > then an administrator could come along and approve the good ones and > delete the bad ones. Then either frame a page on our server in the > postgres site or just a link would do. > > In fact you could use it to replace the announce list. > > > The message schema might look like: > <type> > software release - postgres (beta, minor (e.g. 7.1.2), major (e.g. 7.2) > software release - pg related > bug notice > postgres in the news > confrence appearence > website/newsgroup/mailing list notice > Great Bridge/Postgres Inc announcement > </type> > > > I guess there only needs to be one field, no sense in making things more > complicated than they need to be. If you want I'll set it up and then > let you look at it to see if you want it. Or you could set it up > yourself, it is pretty simple. > > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Three good PostgreSQL articles appeared today: > > > > Microsoft against Oracle with question about Red Hat Database (PostgreSQL) > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/21003.html > > > > Open Source / Commercial Database Comparison > > http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2802205,00.html > > > > Interview with Bruce Momjian > > http://lwn.net/2001/features/oreilly2001/BruceMomjianInterview.php3 > > > > Also, if someone is interested is maintaining the PostgreSQL news page, > > please contact me or Vince, our PostgreSQL webmaster. > > > > > > > -- > Joseph Shraibman > jks@selectacast.net > Increase signal to noise ratio. http://www.targabot.com > > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
Bruce Momjian writes: > I am CC'ing the docs list on this. Sounds like a nice idea. > > > If you want you could use a targabot so people could submit news itmes, > > then an administrator could come along and approve the good ones and > > delete the bad ones. Then either frame a page on our server in the > > postgres site or just a link would do. Sounds like a slashdot all about PostgreSQL. Cool. (Compare dot.kde.org.) The only thing we'd need is a few "journalists" that would pretend to maintain this. ...and someone to sell advertisements. While we're at it, we need a freshmeat all about PostgreSQL as well. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
Well I don't know how hard it is to moderate a slash site. Moderation of a targabot is easy. We also have an ad server that is pretty easy for an administrator to use, but at the moment it only sticks ads in outgoing mails. The whole point of a targabot is that everything is rulebased, so ads could be delivered based on a user's profile, but I didn't specify a profile in my example. I was thinking something really low volume, like the current announce list and the news page. If you want something like dot.kde.org where they try and create real news for it all the time it could easily scale. Based on the current announce list I didn't think the pg related software annoucements merited their own list. Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > >>I am CC'ing the docs list on this. Sounds like a nice idea. >> >> >>>If you want you could use a targabot so people could submit news itmes, >>>then an administrator could come along and approve the good ones and >>>delete the bad ones. Then either frame a page on our server in the >>>postgres site or just a link would do. >>> > > Sounds like a slashdot all about PostgreSQL. Cool. (Compare > dot.kde.org.) > > The only thing we'd need is a few "journalists" that would pretend to > maintain this. > > ...and someone to sell advertisements. > > While we're at it, we need a freshmeat all about PostgreSQL as well. > > -- Joseph Shraibman jks@selectacast.net Increase signal to noise ratio. http://www.targabot.com
In article <Pine.LNX.4.30.0108150055060.677-100000@peter.localdomain>, peter_e@gmx.net (Peter Eisentraut) wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > >> I am CC'ing the docs list on this. Sounds like a nice idea. >> >> > If you want you could use a targabot so people could submit news >> > itmes, then an administrator could come along and approve the good >> > ones and delete the bad ones. Then either frame a page on our server >> > in the postgres site or just a link would do. > > Sounds like a slashdot all about PostgreSQL. Cool. (Compare > dot.kde.org.) > > The only thing we'd need is a few "journalists" that would pretend to > maintain this. > > ...and someone to sell advertisements. > > While we're at it, we need a freshmeat all about PostgreSQL as well. > I was wondering about PostgreSQL weekly news -an amalgam of Linux Weekly News and Kernel Traffic i.e. something with pointers to docs such as new tutorials or case studies, press coverage etc. and maybe summaries of "hot topics on -hackers" stuff to help people understand the "issues of the day". I might be able to contribute a little time to such a thing. Any interest? Regards John