From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Draft release notes complete |
Date: | 2012-09-06 02:08:56 |
Message-ID: | 20120906020856.GG29484@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 09:59:50PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Bruce Momjian (bruce(at)momjian(dot)us) wrote:
> > > How often do you want? After all,
> > > <http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/index.html> is
> > > presumably going to keep pointing to where it now points.
> >
> > Well, the old code checked every five minutes, and it rebuilt in 4
> > minutes, so there was a max of 10 minutes delay.
>
> I'm a bit mystified why we build them far *more* often than necessary..
> Do we really commit documentation updates more than 6 times per day?
> Wouldn't it be reasonably straight-forward to set up a commit-hook that
> either kicks off a build itself, drops a file marker some place to
> signal a cron job to do it, or something similar?
>
> Have to agree with Bruce on this one, for my part. I wonder if the
> change to delay the crons was due to lack of proper locking or
> tracking, or perhaps a lack of a filter for just changes which would
> impact the documentation..
What the script I donated did was to do a cvs update in the sgml
directory and look for changes --- if it found them, it rebuilt.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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