Re: Alpha Releases: Docs?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Alpha Releases: Docs?
Date: 2009-08-07 00:20:34
Message-ID: 200908070020.n770KYX01411@momjian.us
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> > I would love to get out of the release-note-writing business, but I
> > can't imagine how such a document could be written incrementally, so it
> > is logical that I would want some kind of test to see that the method I
> > didn't think would work would actually work.
>
> What about Robert's suggested method of simply checking the incremental
> version against the commit logs? Then you'd only be writing what was
> actually missed, rather than writing everything and then checking it.

I don't see why it is a problem to have folks creating incremental
release notes and having me create some for 8.5 to test against? This
is how we have automated other processes --- you do as good a job as I
do and I stop doing the job. It seems it would be me wasting my time to
validate you work, but I am willing to do it.

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