pgAdmin standard short description

Dear Jean-Michel!

Your proposal description is very good but one point: not everybody knows what is PostgreSQL. If we add "wellknown PostgreSQL database server" our description become more complete and self-contained. Corrected standard description text then will be:

"<a href='http://www.pgadmin.org'>pgAdmin</a> is a free
software offering a complete set of administration and
development tools for wellknown PostgreSQL database server.
The software offers a very
intuitive graphical interface running under multiple
platforms including MS Windows, GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.
pgAdmin Project is a collaborative project including hundreds
of volunteers."

Another note - "PostgreSQL database server, which is free also." - maybe useful too, but is not critical.
I think that we have to put the description on the main page of pgadmin.org. It will never bother a hacker or advanced user but will be very helpful to newbies visiting pgAdmin website. We can add another subsection to main page, say "What is pgAdmin?" or "About pgAdmin", between "Latest news" and "Features" subsections.
What will you say about it?

cheers, Andrej

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm(at)poure(dot)com]
>> Sent: 29 November 2003 21:42
>> To: surae(at)yandex(dot)ru
>> Cc: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] pgAdmin web site translated
>> into 11 languages
>>
>> Le Samedi 29 Novembre 2003 15:30, Andrej Surkov a йcrit :
>> > I have registered pgAdmin web site on russian search engine and
>> > realizes that there is no direct description of the
>> software on the site main page.
>> > I think it is not correct and short description in few sentences
>> > should be published. That's just good style for respectable
>> software
>> > and its presentation website. What do you think about it?
>>
>> Dear Andrej,
>>
>> You are right. It would be nice to agree on a "standard"
>> description of
>> pgAdmin3 in a few sentences, for translation and registration
>> on web search engines.
>>
>> [Technically, we could store these sentences in the META
>> information of the web site and extract them to the
>> pgadmin_wesite.pot file for translation.]
>>
>> A possible proposal:
>>
>> "<a href='http://www.pgadmin.org'>pgAdmin</a> is a free
>> software offering a complete set of administration and
>> development tools for PostgreSQL. The software offers a very
>> intuitive graphical interface running under multiple
>> platforms including MS Windows, GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.
>> pgAdmin Project is a collaborative project including hundreds
>> of volunteers."
>
>Not sure about that. 'complete set' implies more than one program which there isn't. Also, 'hundreds' is a little one the high side...
>
>Oh, and I object to GNU/Linux.
>
>> Can we all discuss a standard text? We should be quite
>> carefull as the text could be publised on dozen of sites. I
>> will be away for the week-end.
>
>We never had a standard desription before, but do have a tagline - for pga2 it was:
>
>pgAdmin II: PostgreSQL Tools for Windows.
>
>Which I then shortened to:
>
>pgAdmin III: PostgreSQL Tools
>
>In addition, I always try to standardise the capitalisation of pgAdmin.
>
>Regards, Dave.