Re: The state of the website survey

On 12/23/19 7:14 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 02:32:37PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 4:39 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/20/19 6:11 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> > The survey on the website continues to be neglected, to the point of it
>> looking
>> > a bit silly.  The current survey was published in October 2018, and
>> refers to
>> > v11.  Since January 2014 we've posted only 7 surveys in total.
>> >
>> > I have a vague memory of the state of the survey being discussed before,
>> but I
>> > fail to find the reference in the archives now.  If memory serves me
>> right, the
>> > outcome was "let's try and revive it, and else remove it".
>> >
>> > IMO the survey isn't helping us in its current state, adds work that
>> noone
>> > seems keen on doing and makes the website look dated.  Should we remove
>> it?
>>
>> If someone wants to help keep it up, I'm happy for it to stay up.
>>
>> Otherwise, I'm equally happy to drop (hide) it.
>>
>> IMV while it is a neat little interactive widget we have on the website,
>> I'm not sure if it is providing any value to our users at this point,
>> even if it were kept up to date.
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I doubt there is much value even if we do keep it maintained. And right
>> now when it's not being maintained, it adds zero or even negative value.
>>
>> +1 for dropping it.
>
> I agree that even if we updated it, no one has any use for the results.
> Has it been removed yet? I don't see any pgweb commit about it.

Not yet, but I can turn something around in short order. It seems there
have been no objections since Daniel has brought it up.

The approach I will take is I'll hide it while leaving the management
functionality available, in case we decide to bring it back.

Jonathan