Re: Users comments don't migrate to docs for new version?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: nikolay(at)samokhvalov(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Users comments don't migrate to docs for new version?
Date: 2007-06-06 16:40:29
Message-ID: 20070606164029.GB11800@alvh.no-ip.org
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Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:
> I've just found (via google...) useful (for me) comments:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-createaggregate.html
> -- I mean users comments under primary contents of the page.
>
> These comments were written for 8.0, but are useful for the current
> versions too. What we have is the situation that reading docs for 8.2
> people don't see these comments -- so this potentially useful
> information is lost. So, in this implementation the idea of comments
> for docs becomes weak in general.

The thing to do in these cases is to move the useful info from the user
comments into the main doc text.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.advogato.org/person/alvherre
"La victoria es para quien se atreve a estar solo"

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