Re: [HACKERS] How to submit a patch

From: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] How to submit a patch
Date: 2008-04-19 18:39:35
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.64.0804191423080.8454@westnet.com
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On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Greg Smith wrote:
>
>> One small change I'd suggest on the main site:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/developer/coding links to
>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_and_Contributor_Resources which
>> is now a redirect to the above page.
>
> This request should be on -www and as a note I don't know that I like the
> idea.

There were two suggestions there, and technically one of them goes to
-docs instead if we're gonna get picky.

1) Switch the URL that's already on the coding page to more directly point
to a URL that actually exists, rather than a redirect. That seems
undebatable.

2) Put a link to an area that contains information like current CommitFest
progress in the development section of the manual.

(2) was already suggested here recently; I said I didn't think that was a
good idea until the content there stabilized because I planned a
reorganization. I was just announcing that I believe that to be stable
now, and I nominate the revised "Developer information" page as the one to
link to.

If you don't like the idea of embedding a few choice URLs from the wiki
into the main documentation in general, I don't know why. The manual is
great for some things, the wiki is great for others, and the best way to
use both for what they're good at is to start coupling them together at
appropriate points.

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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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