Re: [pgsql-www] Fix for PG History web page

On 01/01/2016 06:41 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 01/01/2016 06:47 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
>> <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc <mailto:stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>> wrote:
>>
>> moving to -advocacy because I think it better belongs there from a
>> discussion pov
>>
>> On 12/23/2015 05:50 AM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us
>> <mailto:bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
>> > <mailto:bruce(at)momjian(dot)us <mailto:bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Our PG history web pages says talks about Postgres 8.0, which
>> seems kind
>> > of old at this point:
>> >
>> > http://www.postgresql.org/about/history/
>> >
>> > Today, PostgreSQL's user base is larger than ever and
>> includes a
>> > sizeable group of large corporations who use it in
>> demanding
>> > environments. Some of these companies such as
>> Afilias and
>> > Fujitsu have
>> > made significant contributions to PostgreSQL's
>> development.
>> > And, true to
>> > its roots, it continues to improve in both
>> sophistication and
>> > performance, now more than ever. Version 8.0 is
>> PostgreSQL's
>> > long
>> > ---
>> > awaited debut into the enterprise database market,
>> bringing
>> > features
>> > such as tablespaces, Java stored procedures, point in
>> time
>> > recovery, and
>> > nested transactions (savepoints). With it came a long
>> > awaited feature
>> > --- a native Windows port.
>> >
>> > Can someone update this? Can I submit a patch?
>> >
>> >
>> > I always think, that our history page is very outdated and
>> requires more
>> > addition than you proposed. I have nothing against mentioning
>> Afilias
>> > and Fujtsu, but then why we didn't acknowledged other companies ?
>> Also,
>> > I think, better to discuss such things in -advocacy mailing list.
>> >
>> > btw, I think we missed great Elein posts
>> >
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20041203184254.F6767@cookie.varlena.com
>>
>>
>> In light of the upcoming 9.5 release it would be awfully nice if
>> somebody could work on updating /about:
>>
>> * The "History" page is very outdated and clearly needs some love
>> * the "Awards" page is something we should imho remove completely
>> (clearly awards are something people care less and less about
>> given our
>> maturity and seeing the most "recent" award on our website being from
>> 2008 is imho actually very bad for our advocacy
>> * The case studies are very outdated and in a fair amount of cases
>> confusing - I think we should also remove them given nobody seem
>> to have
>> the time and enthusiasm to keep them at least somewhat current,
>> same for
>> the "featured users" list (most recent entry there seems to be from
>> ~2006 and some places dont even exist any more)
>>
>>
>> These things are all on the TODO list of the folks who offered to work
>> on the website redesign. As I'm sure Bruce is very well aware, since was
>> present in the meeting that they did. However, per the result of that
>> discussion, *their* focus is to work on the design first and the content
>> later.
>>
>> However, that of course doesn't prevent *others* from working on the
>> actual content. Patches are always welcome, and as those are all static
>> pages they shouldn't break any of the redesign work.
>
> Where is the entry point for doing patches?
>
> Or is there some link that describes at least in outline form a
> procedure for working on the Web site content?

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgweb.git;a=summary

and more specificially:

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgweb.git;a=tree;f=docs;hb=HEAD

Stefan