Thread: a few webby things
Web maintainers, I don't usually get into website stuff, and don't read the list, but here are a couple questions/suggestions and one plea for help. 1. I was recently given the honor of being made a committer (somewhat to my surprise). It occurred to me then that I didn't know who all the committers were. So I went to the web site but didn't see the info anywhere. Maybe a separate section on the developers page, or a little icon to distinguish them, would be a good thing. This isn't because I want to blow my own horn but because others might have the same question I did. 2. Has anyone ever tried to produce a version of the docs with a navigation sidebar? I often use the web site docs but I would like something like the Table of Contents as a sidebar (maybe in it own frame) that would help navigate without having to go to the top all the time. That would be a great advance. I'm suggesting it as an additional option, not to replace the existing docs setup. 3. As you probably know, I run the postgresql buildfarm. Not too long ago we added to our dashboard page some little icons that show configure flags that were used on the build: see http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl . Ive looked at using text instead of these icons, but the results weren't very pleasing. Michael Glaesmann, who devised our theme, tried making some little text bearing icons, but I didn't like those much either. However, the icons we have aren't very good either; they jar visually, and I'd like something better. They need to be tiny - ideally 16x16. Any help would be appreciated. (make sure I'm cc'd on replies, please) cheers andrew
> Web maintainers, > > I don't usually get into website stuff, and don't read the > list, but here are a couple questions/suggestions and one > plea for help. > > 1. I was recently given the honor of being made a committer > (somewhat to my surprise). It occurred to me then that I > didn't know who all the committers were. So I went to the web > site but didn't see the info anywhere. Maybe a separate > section on the developers page, or a little icon to > distinguish them, would be a good thing. This isn't because I > want to blow my own horn but because others might have the > same question I did. This sounds like a good idea. I don't know who they are either :-) (apart from the usual suspects, of course) If someone can cook up the complete list, adding it to the page should be trivial. > 2. Has anyone ever tried to produce a version of the docs > with a navigation sidebar? I often use the web site docs but > I would like something like the Table of Contents as a > sidebar (maybe in it own > frame) that would help navigate without having to go to the > top all the time. That would be a great advance. I'm > suggesting it as an additional option, not to replace the > existing docs setup. This also sounds like a good idea. I dunno if it has been tried though - if not, it sounds like it could be worth one. Dave, you did the docs stuff, right? Ever tried this? [snip the image stuff, really can't help you there] //Magnus
> -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org > [mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Magnus Hagander > Sent: 18 September 2005 21:45 > To: Andrew Dunstan; pgsql-www@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] a few webby things > > This also sounds like a good idea. I dunno if it has been > tried though - > if not, it sounds like it could be worth one. Dave, you did the docs > stuff, right? Ever tried this? All I did was db-ise it. I haven't got the foggiest how to put a toc down the side, except perhaps by making use of the 'make htmlhelp' build target to build a file to include. The downside is that it's pretty large (207Kb for beta2), and a pita to build as Andrew knows (out of about 10 machines we tried on, his was the only non-64bit one that it successfully built on on Friday night). Regards, Dave.