Re: The state of the website survey

On 12/23/19 7:14 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 02:32:37PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 4:39 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
>>
>>     On 11/20/19 6:11 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>     > The survey on the website continues to be neglected, to the point of it
>>     looking
>>     > a bit silly.  The current survey was published in October 2018, and
>>     refers to
>>     > v11.  Since January 2014 we've posted only 7 surveys in total.
>>     >
>>     > I have a vague memory of the state of the survey being discussed before,
>>     but I
>>     > fail to find the reference in the archives now.  If memory serves me
>>     right, the
>>     > outcome was "let's try and revive it, and else remove it".
>>     >
>>     > IMO the survey isn't helping us in its current state, adds work that
>>     noone
>>     > seems keen on doing and makes the website look dated.  Should we remove
>>     it?
>>
>>     If someone wants to help keep it up, I'm happy for it to stay up.
>>
>>     Otherwise, I'm equally happy to drop (hide) it.
>>
>>     IMV while it is a neat little interactive widget we have on the website,
>>     I'm not sure if it is providing any value to our users at this point,
>>     even if it were kept up to date.
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I doubt there is much value even if we do keep it maintained. And right
>> now when it's not being maintained, it adds zero or even negative value.
>>
>> +1 for dropping it.
>
> I agree that even if we updated it, no one has any use for the results.
> Has it been removed yet?  I don't see any pgweb commit about it.

Not yet, but I can turn something around in short order. It seems there
have been no objections since Daniel has brought it up.

The approach I will take is I'll hide it while leaving the management
functionality available, in case we decide to bring it back.

Jonathan