On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 07:07:26PM +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 09/05/2012 06:44 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 01:21:36PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mar sep 04 13:39:23 -0300 2012:
> >>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 09:37:48AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>
> >>>> I am ready to work on this. The flowchart has three parts:
> >>
> >>> OK, updated flowchart now online:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.postgresql.org/developer/backend/
> >>>
> >>> While the main page requires a patch to modify, the wiki it links to can
> >>> be modified by anyone with a wiki account.
> >>>
> >>> I have removed src/tools/backend from git now that we are hosting it
> >>> elsewhere.
> >>
> >> After giving this some more thought and sleep, I think the main website
> >> is an ill-suited place for this kind of thing. I think it belongs
> >> somewhere in http://developer.postgresql.org maybe under ~bmomjian ;-)
> >
> > Well http://developer.postgresql.org redirects to our main site. You
> > want the URL in a different location? You don't want it linked to our
> > developer tab? You want the content out of the pgweb git tree?
>
> not sure redirecting developer.postgresql.org to the main website is
> perfect but well...
>
> Thinking about it I guess alvaro has a point, the backend flowchart is
> kinda an odd think on the current website. it is fairly technical and
> seems to be content that needs to be maintained external which is
> obvious from the fact alone that is like has 2x the number of links to
> external sources ie one single page of the wiki and various pointers
> into gitweb and not a single one to the website (well that is not
> correct - it has one for backend/commands which looks like a typo).
Thanks, I have submitted a patch to Magnus for that.
> I think the obvious place to put it is the wiki (given that the gist of
> the textual information is there already) and I don't think that loosing
> the "clickable" aspect of the picture is really a problem (i think the
> almost impossible to read pink text is one though).
Well, it used to be in our git code tree, but people didn't like it
there. If you want to put it in my home directory, that is fine. I
don't see moving it to a wiki with lost functionality as a win.
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