Re: Release notes

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > How is maintaining another file on every commit going to go over?
>
> If memory serves, we tried this before --- back in the 7.4 devel cycle,
> people were supposed to add small entries to release.sgml every time
> they committed something worth mentioning in the release notes. This
> was not done anywhere near consistently enough to be useful, however,
> and so we gave it up. ISTR that we had patch-merging problems too,
> because any patch submitters who took it seriously were trying to patch
> the same chunk of release.sgml.
>
> I tend to agree with Bruce that it's more efficient to go through the
> CVS logs once than to try to do the work incrementally. We should
> encourage people to write commit messages that are sufficient for the
> release notes, but folding the text into release.sgml immediately
> doesn't seem all that important.

Another complexity is that when you are going through the logs in 1-3
days, you remember all the information and can adjust things so they are
consistent. I have certain rules of determining what items are worthy,
what are not, and what have to be merged into a single entry. Having
individuals do that is harder.

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