Re: Updates "What's New" URL

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <
jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> wrote:

> On Sep 25, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Jonathan S. Katz <
> jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a patch that updates "What's New" URL to point to the 9.2 release
>> notes (see attached).
>>
>
> Thanks - I've committed and pushed it. The change should show up soon.
>
>
> Hm, not showing up for me yet, perhaps it's still in varnish?
>

Fixed now.

>
> One reason I'm commenting on this trivial change is that it is something
>> we do need to remember to do every release. Perhaps there might be an
>> easier method to update the "What's New" page, perhaps having it point
>> automatically to the new version of the release notes once we release?
>>
>>
> Doesn't seem unreasonable.
>
>
> One alternative thought - we setup something in the docs that's a URL i.e.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-notes/ (or
> /whats-new/) that just links or redirects to the current release notes.
> Perhaps there is some coding magic we can do to find the latest release
> from that
>

Well we have the version info in the database iirc. See the Versions model.
Patches welcome :-)

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