Re: When should be advocate external projects?

On 12 May 2016, at 21:24, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:44:17AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> That's basically what the software catalogue does, isn't it? It needs to be
>>> revamped to be more user friendly, and more promoted, but as a  basis?
>>
>> Sure, that kind of idea.  I'd forgotten we had that.  I think that we
>> should go to a format with just one line for each piece of software,
>> though, instead of a big box.  And try to get it all one one page.
>> And remove all of the proprietary products or put them in a separate
>> section.  And include only stuff that's actually reasonably widely
>> used.
>>
>> Maybe we should just go stand up a wiki page to start.  What's in the
>> software catalog right now looks useless to me.
>
> I think our wiki page that lists all the FDWs is great, so why can't we
> do this for other external software?
>
>     https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers

That page does seem well put together.  Guess the main question now is
"who will drive this initiative?"

+ Justin

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