Re: tickling the lesser contributor's withering ego

On 2018-Dec-27, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 4:17 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 2018-Dec-21, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > > > I propose the following patch, which will make those links stable --
> > > > then we can add the following links to the contributors page:
> > > > https://www.postgresql/org/docs/10/release-10.html#RELEASE-10-ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
> > > > https://www.postgresql/org/docs/11/release-11.html#RELEASE-11-ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
> > >
> > > Seems reasonable, but note the lag time --- unless somebody does
> > > something out of the ordinary, those pages won't actually have
> > > such tags till after the February minor releases.
> >
> > Good point. That seems acceptable to me.
>
> Good. While it *can* be worked around, it's a PITA and it risks getting
> overwritten by other things, since the normal docs loads are based off
> release tarballs. We can make them off a snapshot tarball, but it's a pain
> :)
>
> Oh, and +1 for stable links like that in general. That would be one good
> step.

Okay, pushed this. There's no need to do any advance publishing I
think; we can wait three more weeks.

We still need Erik to come up with the patch for pgweb, though :-)

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