From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: w^3 <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: publishing changelogs on pgweb
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:28:11 -0300
Message-ID: <20081222122811.GA10220@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25050.1184164913@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <200707111306.l6BD69G14356@momjian.us>
<25050.1184164913@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Hi,
This was proposed over a year ago, here
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/25050.1184164913%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Any thoughts on how could we do it? Maybe a hook on the anoncvs
auto-update thing, that regenerated a set of static files?
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> Hmm, do we include the cvs2cl-generated ChangeLog in the tarballs?
>
> > No, we don't. We used to but the file got too large. Perhaps we should
> > supply a URL that generates that information.
>
> There are a couple of different queries that people would be interested
> in:
>
> * the full cvs2cl log between any two release points;
> * the cvs2cl log from latest release to branch tip.
>
> I do not think it's appropriate to stick this into the tarballs, as
> there's an awful lot of noise in the logs (eg, docs tweaks, reverted
> patches, trivial code cleanups); our practice of generating a condensed
> release-notes page is a large public service in my eyes. But +1 to
> providing a web page from which the detailed answers could be generated
> easily.
>
> BTW, cvs2cl (at least the version I use) works fine against a remote
> repository, so it's not like Ray couldn't have gotten the answer for
> himself. But a web page would be more user-friendly.
>
> regards, tom lane
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