Re: User documentation vs Official Docs

On 07/16/2018 01:32 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> -general.
>
> Over the last year as I have visited many meetups and interacted with
> people at conferences etc... There are three prevailing issues that
> continue to come up in contributing to the community. This email is
> about one of them. Where is the "user" documentation? The official
> documentation is awesome, if you know what you are doing. It is not
> particularly useful for HOWTO style docs. There is some user
> documentation in the wiki but let's be honest, writing a
> blog/article/howto in a wiki is a pain in the butt.
>
> What does the community think about a community run, community
> organized, sub project for USER documentation? This type of
> documentation would be things like, "10 steps to configure replication",
> "Dumb simple Postgres backups",  "5 things to NEVER do with Postgres". I
> imagine we would sort it by version (9.6/10.0 etc...) as well as break
> it down via type (Administration, Tuning, Gotchas) etc...
>
> What do we think?

Not sure this is much different from the Wiki unless:

Who is going to?:

1) Run/maintain it.

2) Get people to contribute.

3) Edit new content, clean up old content

>
> Thanks!
>
> JD
>
>

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Adrian Klaver
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