On 20 June 2013 19:55, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 07:29:31PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> On 20 June 2013 19:04, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:59:32PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 07:47:29PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> >> > > Yeah, it is useful enough to reference from our site --- I think that is
>> >> > > the open question.
>> >> >
>> >> > Yeah. How many users do you have today, after having announced it through
>> >> > planet? (or have you announced it some other way as well?)
>> >>
>> >> Well, the website displays a dynamic count of the number of users
>> >> viewing the website for at least five minutes in the past hour:
>> >>
>> >> http://pglife.momjian.us/about.html
>> >>
>> >> Currently there are 16. I think a larger question is whether it is
>> >> something we want to officially recommend for users trying to figure out
>> >> what is going on.
>> >
>> > There doesn't seem to be enough interest to add a link at this time;
>> > maybe next year.
>>
>> I don't really understand why it has to be a link?
>>
>> Surely all things about the community run on postgresql.org?
>
> It certainly doesn't have to be a link. I just thought it would be
> helpful for new users to see all the activity on one screen. But, of
> course, pglife is only a few months old, so I can wait for its userbase
> to mature.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand "all things about the community run on
> postgresql.org". You are right that almost all the information in
> pglife is somewhere on the postgresql.org website, or linked to it;
> perhaps that what you meant.
My hope would be that someone on the core team would be looking to
extend postgresql.org, not encourage links to their own personal
sites.
If we discussed this without knowing who the person proposing this
was, it would never be allowed.
I'm sure you have no ulterior motive, but you would set a precedent
that would be hard to unravel when others request the same.
Please add pglife.postgresql.org and host things there directly.
--Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services