Re: PSA: Planning to grease protocol connections during 19beta

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> I wanted to get people's thoughts on communication. As it stands now,
> beta users will be directed towards our own documentation [1] when
> they hit a grease failure. But personally, I'd like the landing page
> to be on the wiki, for several reasons:

> - It can be written in a more casual voice, and go into detail that
> would be out of place in a docs note
> - It's easier to change quickly in response to end user feedback, if
> we receive any
> - It can remain in place after the beta period ends

> But having libpq link to a wiki page makes that page a vandalism
> target. Can a wiki page be protected in a way that still lets
> committers edit it? Is there a third option that works better than the
> docs or the wiki?

We have the ability to lock down a wiki page, but I believe that means
nobody can edit it until a wiki admin unlocks it.  That might be the
way to go here though.  I concur with your reasoning that the main
docs are a less-good place.

			regards, tom lane