Re: Cleaning up the books page

On 7/17/23 5:54 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> While adding the latest books to the books page I (re-)realized how much cruft
> that page has accumulated. A lot of books have links which are dead, some are
> listed multiple times in different editions, and many of them cover long since
> EOL version of postgres. On top of that, the indentation is quite creative.
>
> The attached set cleans up that page to make the content IMO more relevant and
> helpful to our users. As we've never claimed to have a complete list of all
> books ever published, keeping the old stuff on-line has no historical interest
> since Google, Amazon and others do a much better job at keeping such things
> available.
>
> The patches are:
>
> 0001: Removes all additional editions of the same book leaving the current
> 0002: Remove all books which 404, and update a few links to work
> 0003: Remove all books published before 2017
> 0004: Fix indentation
>
> I assume 0003 is the controversial one. Thoughts?

I'm +1 for 0002 and 0004, and would prioritize committing 0002 to remove
our outbound links with 404s.

-1 for 0001 (strong opinion loosely held), -1 for 0003 (strong opinion,
strongly held).

Jonathan