From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200310221831.h9MIVbu08292@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: 7.4 compatibility question
In-Reply-To: <1066847216.374.108.camel@tokyo>
To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:31:37 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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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.

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