Re: Additional links for the "Community" page

On 08/02/2022 10:38, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 8 Feb 2022, at 03:26, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads@pgug.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 08/02/2022 03:18, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>> On 1/7/22 5:24 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> attached is a small patch with additional links for the "External Resources"
>>>> section on the postgresql.org <http://postgresql.org> "Community" website. The one link there is
>>>> a bit lonely.
>>>>
>>>> All links are up for discussion, and I don't think any of them is somehow
>>>> biased towards specific companies.
>>>>
>>>> And of course if you have more resources, please post them here as we
>>> I think the "Internals of PostgreSQL" would be good on the "Tutorials & Other Resources"[1] page, as IMV it's a
prettythorough tutorial on the internals of PostgreSQL.
 
>>>
>>> For Stack Exchange, if we linked to it from anywhere it would be the support page[2], but that would effectively
meanwe're endorsing it as an area for community support. The support resources listed are all things we either have
communityoversight over or maintain a directory of.
 
>> The community has no oversight over the one existing link there either.
>> It says "External Resources", and maybe it deserves an additional note
>> that the listed resources are not associated with the community.
>> Something like:
>>
>> The resources listed here are not endorsed or maintained by the
>> PostgreSQL Community. Please refer any questions to the website owner.
> That one link is below the fold on my laptop so I didn't even see it, I had to
> go hunting to even see the area of discussion.

It looked lonely, and I stumbled over it a few times, that's why I 
submitted a bit
of additional content for it.


> If we are going to have a curated set of links (which I personally question the
> value of), wouldn't it be better if they were submitted in the same/similar
> fashion as professional services etc and subject to moderation by the pgweb
> moderators?

We can only have it one way. Either remove the lonely link there, or add
more content which fits roughly what Jonathan proposes.

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