Re: New PostgreSQL Books

Darren Duncan <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:11:35 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2018-03-16 1:06 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> On Mar 16, 2018, at 4:05 PM, Dave Page wrote:
>>
>> On 16 Mar 2018, at 20:03, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>
>>>> On Mar 16, 2018, at 3:42 PM, Sarah Schnurr wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm one of the developers working on the new PostgreSQL website, and while 
>>>> reviewing for outdated information I noticed there's some new books 
>>>> published in 2017 & 2018 that aren't in the Books database. Are there any 
>>>> arguments against including these?
>>>>
>>>>   * https://bookauthority.org/books/new-postgresql-books
>>>>   * https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon
>>> From my time helping to add content typically we’ve added books when people
>>> have asked us to do so.  From someone who predates me: are we ok with
>>> adding references to books when the author has not specifically reached out?
>>
>> There are potential copyright images with pictures of them if we do that. I 
>> doubt anyone would complain, but you never know.
> 
> In that case, we could do the old-fashioned “one of us reach out” and see if they
> are okay with listing it.

Exactly, just what I was going to say.  If they don't come to us, but we become 
aware they exist, we ask them. -- Darren Duncan