PSC Vote: retire trac as Dev/User documentation storage

[Paul Ramsey]

+1, trac wiki has outlived its time

> On Jul 9, 2026, at 12:54 PM, Darafei Komяpa Praliaskouski <me at komzpa.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> TLDR: Let's drop docs from trac wiki (https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki) to not confuse users to try to find something there, we saved the still actual ones in git and manual already.
> 
> Trac was used a long time ago as a documentation storage. Since then decades have passed, we have a website (at postgis.net <http://postgis.net/>), user handbook (https://postgis.net/documentation/manual/), training materials (https://github.com/postgis/postgis-workshops). Most pages are 15+ years old.
> 
> A gap that we had until recently was developer documentation. Existing developers got some knowledge by osmosis, and in the last month we learned we did not write down a lot of nuances by observing the common misses by LLMs. As previously mentioned in https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2026-June/030846.html the notes collected during review of AI pull requests were combined with trac content that is still relevant and pushed to
> https://gitea.osgeo.org/postgis/postgis/src/branch/master/doc/development - thanks everyone (especially Sandro and Regina) for the comments on the changes and what needs to be in docs. Everyone is welcome to enhance these docs.
> 
> So, I propose we delete documentation from trac wiki and agree to not add more there in the future.
> 
> We also used trac for meeting notes, and tickets. These are out of scope for this vote.
> 
> Thanks,
> Darafei.
> 

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