Re: cvs chapters in our docs
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-11-26T15:38:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes: > Robert Haas wrote: >> I have to say I'm not really impressed by the idea of removing things >> from our documentation and replacing them with pages on the wiki. The >> documentation is better-written and easier to navigate. > I agree in general, but information about version control isn't really > part of the product. For example, if we switch from CVS to Git, and > decide to pull the plug on the CVS server (hypotethically; in reality > I'm sure we'd leave the CVS server around for historical purposes), the > information becomes obsolete. If our docs are supposed to cover only information that's not subject to change, they'll become quite short. I agree with Robert that moving the info from the SGML docs to the wiki isn't an improvement. regards, tom lane