Re: User documentation vs Official Docs

On Friday, July 20, 2018, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I was hoping to get the -general community to step and build some recipes
> and howto articles without at the same time dictating the solution. That's
> a good thing because a non-dictated solution is likely to have more
> strength.
>

People have chosen to solve this via books and writing applications that
build onto the infrastructure PostgreSQL provides (in particular in the
area of backups).

There is room for making others' lives easier in a more structured way but
that takes time - which if you limit any acceptable solution to "free as in
beer" is going to likely result in status quo (publish stuff however each
person wishes and let people find it via search engine or as a result of
asking questions on -general or SO.

We don't have to be everything to everyone and free to boot.

Writing up documentation and guides to answer specific questions that are
posed and lack answers elsewhere (or in a desireable format) is something
that will have a good chance to garner a concrete positive result. This
thread, at this point and IMO, has served its purpose - to remind others
that we have a possible gap in our accessibility. That goal seems largely
accomplished and anyone wanting to discuss specific thoughts for addressing
this please post an appropriately subject line message to -general with
those concrete thoughts. Otherwise we now have a good feel for current
reality and can find resources and then point people to those that exist
today next time questions come up (or have them asked on -general).

David J.