Re: PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 release announcement draft

On Mon, 20 May 2024 at 22:11, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2024-May-16, David Rowley wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 17:37, zaidagilist <zaidagilist(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > I am trying to open the 17 docs but it looks removed. Getting
> > > following message "Page not found"
> > >
> > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/
> >
> > It's called "devel" for "development" until we branch sometime before July:
> >
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/
>
> Hmm, but that would mean that the Beta1 announce would ship full of
> links that will remain broken until July. I'm not sure what the
> workflow for this is, but I hope the /17/ URLs would become valid with
> beta1, later this week.

I didn't quite click that it was Jonathan's links that were being
complained about.

I don't know how the website picks up where to link the doc page for a
given version. I see from e0b82fc8e8 that the PACKAGE_VERSION was
changed from 16devel to 16beta1. Does the website have something that
extracts "devel" from the former and "16" from the latter? I see the
release announcement for 16beta1 had /16/ links per [1]. So, I guess
it works. I just don't know how.

David

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-16-beta-1-released-2643/