Re: tickling the lesser contributor's withering ego

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Pg Docs <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>, w^3 <pgsql-www@lists.postgresql.org>, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-01-21T17:47:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs
On 2018-Dec-27, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 4:17 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 2018-Dec-21, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > > > I propose the following patch, which will make those links stable --
> > > > then we can add the following links to the contributors page:
> > > > https://www.postgresql/org/docs/10/release-10.html#RELEASE-10-ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
> > > > https://www.postgresql/org/docs/11/release-11.html#RELEASE-11-ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
> > >
> > > Seems reasonable, but note the lag time --- unless somebody does
> > > something out of the ordinary, those pages won't actually have
> > > such tags till after the February minor releases.
> >
> > Good point.  That seems acceptable to me.
> 
> Good. While it *can* be worked around, it's a PITA and it risks getting
> overwritten by other things, since the normal docs loads are based off
> release tarballs. We can make them off a snapshot tarball, but it's a pain
> :)
> 
> Oh, and +1 for stable links like that in general. That would be one good
> step.

Okay, pushed this.  There's no need to do any advance publishing I
think; we can wait three more weeks.

We still need Erik to come up with the patch for pgweb, though :-)

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Commits

  1. Add 'id' to Acknowledgments section