Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié sep 05 20:24:08 -0300 2012: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > > The only reason there is a significant delay is that the administrators > > have chosen not to run the process more than once every 4 hours. That's > > a choice not dictated by the process they are using, but by other > > considerations concerning the machine it's being run on. Since I am not > > one of the admins and don't really want to take responsibility for it I > > am not going to second guess them. On the very rare occasions when I > > absolutely have to have the totally up to date docs I build them myself > > - it takes about 60 seconds on my modest hardware. > > I think the argument for having a quick docs build service is not about > the time needed, but the need to have all the appropriate tools > installed. While I can understand that argument for J Random Hacker, > I'm mystified why Bruce doesn't seem to have bothered to get a working > SGML toolset installed. It's not like editing the docs is a one-shot > task for him.
As far as I understand, Bruce's concern is not about seeing the docs built himself, but having an HTML copy published somewhere that he can point people to, after applying some patch. To me, that's a perfectly legitimate reason to want to have them quickly. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
