| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Release Note Changes |
| Date: | 2007-12-09 23:33:30 |
| Message-ID: | 200712092333.lB9NXUD04704@momjian.us |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>> However as a user I find it helpful to get a kind of overview of the kinds of
> >>> invisible changes there were so I can get a feel for the magnitude of the
> >>> improvements between versions.
> >>>
> >> I agree with this as well. However, I am starting to wonder if the
> >> "release notes" is the place for this. I am starting to think that
> >> instead we need a white paper on the release (or each release) that is
> >> categorized and reasonably in depth on "why" 8.3 (or 8.4 etc..).
> >
> > Sure, and we could perhaps put up with some gritty detail there, though
> > it doesn't solve the problem of people's work not being mentioned.
> > Seems that is a separate problem.
>
> I assumed the white paper would have proper attribution.
Right, but is the white paper going to be thorough to mention _all_
changes?
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