PSC Vote: retire trac as Dev/User documentation storage

[Regina Obe]

+1

 

From: Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> 
Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2026 4:04 PM
To: Darafei Praliaskouski <me at komzpa.net>
Cc: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>; psc at postgis.net
Subject: Re: PSC Vote: retire trac as Dev/User documentation storage

 

+1, trac wiki has outlived its time





On Jul 9, 2026, at 12:54 PM, Darafei Komяpa Praliaskouski <me at komzpa.net <mailto: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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