Re: Alpha Releases: Docs?

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Bruce Momjian<bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Bruce,
>>
>> > I would love to get out of the release-note-writing business, but I
>> > can't imagine how such a document could be written incrementally, so it
>> > is logical that I would want some kind of test to see that the method I
>> > didn't think would work would actually work.
>>
>> What about Robert's suggested method of simply checking the incremental
>> version against the commit logs?  Then you'd only be writing what was
>> actually missed, rather than writing everything and then checking it.
>
> I don't see why it is a problem to have folks creating incremental
> release notes and having me create some for 8.5 to test against?  This
> is how we have automated other processes --- you do as good a job as I
> do and I stop doing the job.  It seems it would be me wasting my time to
> validate you work, but I am willing to do it.

Well, to some extent this may boil down to semantics, but keep in mind
that our goal in volunteering is to get the release out the door more
quickly. We need you to be willing to do less work, not more, or at
least find a way to get some of that work out of the critical path of
the release.

...Robert