Re: Community IRC - Other Related - PostGIS out-of-date

Greetings,

* Daniel Gustafsson (daniel(at)yesql(dot)se) wrote:
> > On 9 Aug 2021, at 11:41, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > I believe it would be useful to update the 'Other Related'-section of
> > the PostgreSQL website to not link to (now) unaffiliated channels.
>
> Another suggestion would be to remove the "Other PostgreSQL Related Channels on
> other IRC networks" section altogether. It's a pretty small list as is, and
> keeping the section means that we're on the hook to maintain it (as we've
> apparently failed to do given that the postgis site was changed 2 months ago,
> and the recent page reordering removed long-since dead channel links). I don't
> have strong feelings, but seems worth to discuss at least.

I agree with the general concern about maintaining it, but I did try to
update it when things changed recently and removed some channels that
were clearly no longer really operating.

> If we are keeping it we should of course keep it up to date, the attached 0002
> does that. It does however link to the matrix channel as well since that's the
> primary instance.

I'm generally +1 on keeping it and working to maintain it.

> When looking at this I realized that the three lists of channels are using
> three different formats for listing channels, 0001 unifies this by making them
> all look the same.

These all looks like good changes to me, thanks for working on it.

Stephen