Re: When should be advocate external projects?

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 09:46:25PM +0100, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 12 May 2016, at 21:24, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:44:17AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> >>> That's basically what the software catalogue does, isn't it? It needs to be
> >>> revamped to be more user friendly, and more promoted, but as a basis?
> >>
> >> Sure, that kind of idea. I'd forgotten we had that. I think that we
> >> should go to a format with just one line for each piece of software,
> >> though, instead of a big box. And try to get it all one one page.
> >> And remove all of the proprietary products or put them in a separate
> >> section. And include only stuff that's actually reasonably widely
> >> used.
> >>
> >> Maybe we should just go stand up a wiki page to start. What's in the
> >> software catalog right now looks useless to me.
> >
> > I think our wiki page that lists all the FDWs is great, so why can't we
> > do this for other external software?
> >
> > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers
>
> That page does seem well put together. Guess the main question now is
> "who will drive this initiative?"

Yep, it is a big job but would be a big win.

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