Re: Documentation: 21.5. Default Roles

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:20 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> * Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 1:38 AM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 4/9/20 11:45 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Apr  9, 2020 at 08:47:56PM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> > > >> On 4/9/20 4:57 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > >>> Jonathan, Stephen, with the minor release done, can we focus on
> adding
> > > >>> the URL redirect and completing the patch to rename this feature
> in the
> > > >>> docs?  Thanks.
> > > >>
> > > >> Yes, I have a prototype for this ready, which I had scrambled
> together
> > > >> before the release. I am happy to make it committable in the coming
> > > days.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.  Once that is done Stephen can apply my patch with his
> > > > additions.
> > >
> > > Please see attached patch for pgweb that allows for the documentation
> to
> > > be redirected from a page that is removed to a newer page. The way it
> > > works:
> > >
> > > - Checks to see if a page is found. If it is, great!
> > > - Now if a page 404s, we first check to see if there is a forwarding
> > > address, i.e. the new page. If it is, we issue a 301 (permanent
> redirecTt).
> > > - If it's still not found, we abort.
> > >
> > > I believe this gives us the desired behavior.
> > >
> > > Thoughts on the patch?
> >
> >  Looks good to me. Go for it.
>
> What's the plan for how to maintain it going forward?  Just email -docs
> and ask someone to perform the update whenever a release is going out..?
> Or do we have some kind of better process in mind?
>
>
GIven how seldom this happens, I think that's perfectly fine. Same as we
already do with the page aliases.

//Magnus