Re: Release note trimming: another modest proposal

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2019-02-05 12:10:57 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> For something like release-9-6-10.html, there's no value in having it
>> appear in three or four different places. You can't even argue that
>> the later branches might be more up-to-date: that text is *the same*,
>> modulo toolchain-forced markup differences, in every branch; or at
>> least if it isn't it means I screwed up.

> If somebody proposed adding automatic redirects from the older linked
> versions to the newest /current/ URL with that version's release notes,
> I'm not sure I would have argued against that. But I do *not* think
> it's actually accurate they are the same - it's a significant difference
> that they're linking to the corresponding version's pages, because those
> will contain that version's syntax / docs.

Huh? The release note contents are identical cross-branch.
I know, because I'm generally the one making them.

Anyway, what I'm now thinkimg would be useful would be to set up a
separate area for aggregated release notes, driven off a new git
repo as I suggested; and then we could consider auto-redirecting
existing URLs like
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/release-9-4-19.html
into that area.

regards, tom lane