Re: Release note trimming: another modest proposal

From: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Release note trimming: another modest proposal
Date: 2019-01-26 15:25:04
Message-ID: 402d07a0-227b-71b7-0ecd-0b6c379e3cd0@postgresql.org
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On 1/26/19 10:06 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>> The one "caveat" I will bring up is that once pushed and applied to the
>> site, we would bring introduce a lot of 404s into the website.
>
> Hm. In principle we could probably insert some redirects, but
> I doubt it's worth the trouble.

The reason I didn't bring it up the redirect method was due to the
latter point: it'd be more trouble than its worth and for not much gain.
How often do people look at the 8.4.7 release notes anyway?

(...I have when researching various things, but that's not a regular
occurrence :-)

>
> If I haven't heard objections, I'll see about making this happen
> during the first week of Feb (after the CF closes, but before
> it's time to do the February releases' notes).

Thank you! I was hoping to take a crack at doing this, but I would not
be able to do so in the above timeline. However, I should be able to review.

Jonathan

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