Re: [pgsql-www] Fix for PG History web page

On 01/01/2016 06:41 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 01/01/2016 06:47 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
>> <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc <mailto:stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>> wrote:
>>
>>     moving to -advocacy because I think it better belongs there from a
>>     discussion pov
>>
>>     On 12/23/2015 05:50 AM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us
>> <mailto:bruce@momjian.us>
>>      > <mailto:bruce@momjian.us <mailto:bruce@momjian.us>>> wrote:
>>      >
>>      >     Our PG history web pages says talks about Postgres 8.0, which
>>     seems kind
>>      >     of old at this point:
>>      >
>>      > http://www.postgresql.org/about/history/
>>      >
>>      >             Today, PostgreSQL's user base is larger than ever and
>>     includes a
>>      >             sizeable group of large corporations who use it in
>>     demanding
>>      >             environments. Some of these companies such as
>> Afilias and
>>      >     Fujitsu have
>>      >             made significant contributions to PostgreSQL's
>>     development.
>>      >     And, true to
>>      >             its roots, it continues to improve in both
>>     sophistication and
>>      >             performance, now more than ever. Version 8.0 is
>>     PostgreSQL's
>>      >     long
>>      >                                                      ---
>>      >             awaited debut into the enterprise database market,
>>     bringing
>>      >     features
>>      >             such as tablespaces, Java stored procedures, point in
>>     time
>>      >     recovery, and
>>      >             nested transactions (savepoints). With it came a long
>>      >     awaited feature
>>      >             --- a native Windows port.
>>      >
>>      >     Can someone update this?  Can I submit a patch?
>>      >
>>      >
>>      > I always think, that our history page is very outdated and
>>     requires more
>>      > addition than you proposed. I have nothing against mentioning
>> Afilias
>>      > and Fujtsu, but then why we didn't acknowledged other companies ?
>>     Also,
>>      > I think, better to discuss such things in -advocacy mailing list.
>>      >
>>      > btw, I think we missed great Elein posts
>>      >
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20041203184254.F6767@cookie.varlena.com
>>
>>
>>     In light of the upcoming 9.5 release it would be awfully nice if
>>     somebody could work on updating /about:
>>
>>       * The "History" page is very outdated and clearly needs some love
>>     * the "Awards" page is something we should imho remove completely
>>     (clearly awards are something people care less and less about
>> given our
>>     maturity and seeing the most "recent" award on our website being from
>>     2008 is imho actually very bad for our advocacy
>>     * The case studies are very outdated and in a fair amount of cases
>>     confusing - I think we should also remove them given nobody seem
>> to have
>>     the time and enthusiasm to keep them at least somewhat current,
>> same for
>>     the "featured users" list (most recent entry there seems to be from
>>     ~2006 and some places dont even exist any more)
>>
>>
>> These things are all on the TODO list of the folks who offered to work
>> on the website redesign. As I'm sure Bruce is very well aware, since was
>> present in the meeting that they did. However, per the result of that
>> discussion, *their* focus is to work on the design first and the content
>> later.
>>
>> However, that of course doesn't prevent *others* from working on the
>> actual content. Patches are always welcome, and as those are all static
>> pages they shouldn't break any of the redesign work.
>
> Where is the entry point for doing patches?
>
> Or is there some link that describes at least in outline form a
> procedure for working on the Web site content?

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgweb.git;a=summary

and more specificially:

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgweb.git;a=tree;f=docs;hb=HEAD



Stefan