| From: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgFoundry |
| Date: | 2005-05-17 06:00:04 |
| Message-ID: | 42898864.7010103@samurai.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> We did do that (not very rigorously) during the 7.4 release cycle.
> I'm not sure why we fell out of the habit again for 8.0. It seems
> like a reasonable idea to me.
In the past I have suggested incrementally maintaining release.sgml (or
some plaintext version of it), rather than having Bruce generate the
release notes from a single sweep through the CVS logs prior to a
release. The current process can easily lose information: Bruce needs to
make a snap decision about which changes are relevant, and it's not
always easy to make that decision correctly. It also means the person
who implemented a feature (and therefore knows the problem well) is not
writing the release notes for it. And it means the release notes are
always at least a little bit behind the times.
IIRC, the previous discussion petered out when Bruce said he prefers the
current process.
-Neil
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