From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: 9.0 release notes done |
Date: | 2010-03-22 21:51:47 |
Message-ID: | 20100322215147.GK26428@fetter.org |
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 02:18:04PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 3/22/10 7:46 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I do not require them to submit SGML; just some format where I
> > can identify the lines that changed. I can do the same for the
> > release notes. I have to check the diffs anyway so manually
> > merging in the changes isn't a problem.
>
> So there are 2 large problems I have with the SGML version, let's
> see if we can deal with them separately:
>
> (1) re-arranging and regrouping the items: the stuff in the release
> notes should end up in 7-8 clear categories, with items arranged in
> descending order by importance. SGML+CVS makes this a task which
> cannot be done collaboratively.
We could throw this on a one of the git mirrors.
> (2) Seeing my edits. There's no edit-->view-->edit cycle with the SGML,
> and it's really hard to check grammar and languge ... let alone compare
> stuff to the alphas ... in raw SGML.
While not a WYSIWYG, shelling out to "make" after each disk write
should do what you want. Which editor(s) do you like to use? Emacs
and vim both have ways to do this. :)
Cheers,
David.
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