Re: When should be advocate external projects?

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 02:15:15PM -0700, Joshua Drake wrote:
> On 05/12/2016 02:02 PM, Justin Clift wrote:
> >On 12 May 2016, at 21:58, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >>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:
>
> >>>>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?"
>
> IMO:
>
> A much better solution is to rework the software catalogue to properly
> highly open source "projects" versus "products" and allow people to manage
> via a moderated interface their own listings. It will be consistent, provide
> a central place within the primary domain and be lower overhead than a wiki.

The nice thing about a wiki is anyone can go in and improve it.

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