Neil Conway wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 13:26, Tom Lane wrote: > > We do already have a practice of adding notes about significant changes > > to release.sgml as they are made. That's relatively new though, and I > > dunno if it's helped Bruce prepare the finished release notes or not. > > Right, we also did a pretty bad job of incrementally updating > release.sgml during the development cycle: only a small portion of all > the changes that we made actually got added to it. I think it would be a > good idea to try to be better at this during the 7.5 cycle. When 7.5 > development begins, we should divide release.sgml into the relevant > sections (e.g. "libpq", "contrib", "performance", "highlights of the > release", etc.), and then keep it updated whenever a relevant change is > made. > > IMHO that would be bother easier to maintain (see we need to write CVS > changelog entries anyway, and Bruce wouldn't need to spend as long > summarizing the changes at the end of the dev cycle), as well as > producing a better quality release notes -- but since Bruce is the one > actually doing the work, I'm content to leave this in his hands.
I find it easier to generate a list from raw CVS than to merge +500 entries into a consistent whole, and I never expect the maintained list to be 100% accurate, so I have to do the CVS thing anyway. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
