Re: 9.5 feature count

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have run a script to count the number of "<listitem>" items in the
> major release notes of each major version of Postgres back to 7.4:
>
> 7.4 280
> 8.0 238
> 8.1 187
> 8.2 230
> 8.3 237
> 8.4 330
> 9.0 252
> 9.1 213
> 9.2 250
> 9.3 187
> 9.4 217
> 9.5 176
>
> The 9.5 number will only change a little by 9.5 final.

I think doing this kind of "analysis" can lead to bad incentives; should
we split two items that are unrelated but touch similarly-sounding parts
of the code, should we merge items that are actually pretty much the
same thing? It's either pointless, because people in-the-know actually
realizes that it doesn't actually mean anything, or confusing because
people think that some releases are bigger than others because they have
"more features".

Maybe there's a reasonable way to measure releases (my 8.0 is bigger
than your 9.1!), but I don't think this is it.

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