Re: When should be advocate external projects?

On 12 May 2016, at 21:58, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 09:46:25PM +0100, Justin Clift wrote:
>> 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?"
>
> Yep, it is a big job but would be a big win.

Wish I had time for it, but I'm learning C++ & Qt at the moment to add
some needed features for another project. :(

+ Justin

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