Re: List of Auxiliary Projects

On 29/03/2020 14:35, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 3/28/20 1:30 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>> On 23/02/2020 02:23, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>>> On 01/02/2020 01:31, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>>> On 1/31/20 7:24 PM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>>>>> On 01/02/2020 00:37, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/31/20 5:50 PM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> following a discussion how a number of not-so-known PostgreSQL
>>>>>>> projects
>>>>>>> can be made more visible, attached is a first draft to list them
>>>>>>> on the
>>>>>>> website.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The draft lists three projects (pgweb, pgeu-system, pglister) as an
>>>>>>> example, and moves the new site under "Community". More projects with
>>>>>>> more description and contact details should be added, of course.
>>>>>> Seems like a good way to get people more involved.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The purpose of this patch is to see if "Community" is the right place
>>>>>>> for this kind of information, and also what other projects and
>>>>>>> details
>>>>>>> should be included.
>>>>>> Are there any HTML templates? I only see the URL added in the context.
>>>>> Actually, you are right. And the second part in my initial email just
>>>>> repeated the "contexts.py" file, instead of adding the correct file.
>>>>> Attached a new patch.
>>>> OK, that makes much more sense ;)
>>>>
>>>> Feedback / bikeshedding:
>>>>
>>>> - I'd recommend putting the pith of the content in a subsection under
>>>> "Developers". I don't see any issue linking to it from the community
>>>> section (and perhaps rewriting the community page a bit to link to more
>>>> of the "contributing areas", but the page is more about ways you can
>>>> develop around things in PostgreSQL
>>>>
>>>> - I'm not sure how I feel about the term "Auxiliary" - it's not used so
>>>> much any more and definitely prone to misspellings. Perhaps "Related
>>>> Projects"?
>>>>
>>>> - I like the overall layout of the page and how there is content around
>>>> each project. I think it's a good start.
>>> I moved the website over from "community" to "development", and
>>> renamed it.
>>>
>>> I also added a couple more projects, but ideas are still welcome.
>> While working on GSoC projects, I found a couple more candidates
>> for this website. New patch attached, still applies clean on pgweb.
> looking at this I'm not sure why you added the lcov/code coverage to the
> list - I find that going way to far in terms of what "the community"
> uses, if we really go that far we need to add a ton of more or less
> random pieces of software(homegrown or not).

Reason was that I went to the main website and checked the projects
I found there. But your explanation makes sense, and I removed it.
All the other listed projects are PG-related.

New patch attached.

Regards,

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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors
Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project