> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]
> Sent: 09 June 2005 17:34
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Proposal for building knowledgebase website.
>
> Dave,
>
> > All the work is currently being done by people that know HTML so
> > initially that is all the support that is required, however in the
> > longterm this will definitely be useful.
>
> Well, that's certainly self-fulfilling.
>
> The reason why the number of PostgreSQL websites keeps
> expanding is partly
> because the main site is pretty useless to the majority of
> the community
> for sharing information. I know that I specifically stopped
> submitting
> stuff to Techdocs because I spend more time doing HTML markup
> than I did
> writing articles ... and that it was impossible to keeps
> stuff up to date
> because it's so hard to edit. And the Brazillian community members I
> talked to aren't interested in creating or utilizing a
> Brazillian version
> of the main site because it doesn't allow them to share
> information the
> way their wiki does.
>
> If you and Robert are happy being the sole content providers for
> PostgreSQL.org in perpetuity, then by all means don't use a
> CMS. But
> maybe you should recognize what you're doing.
Josh,
I've gotta assume you're either sleeping from the travelling you've been
doing, or didn't read what I wrote. I said we don't need anything but
HTML initially. *We* will be porting data from techdocs for some time
into any new system long before we will be ready to even let end users
see it. There is no need to build a complex interface to begin with for
that purpose.
Regards, Dave