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