Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 22:02:01 -0800
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>,
	Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>,
	Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>,
	pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Release note trimming: another modest proposal
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Hi,

On 2019-01-26 10:06:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org> writes:
> > The one "caveat" I will bring up is that once pushed and applied to the
> > site, we would bring introduce a lot of 404s into the website.
> 
> Hm.  In principle we could probably insert some redirects, but
> I doubt it's worth the trouble.
> 
> If I haven't heard objections, I'll see about making this happen
> during the first week of Feb (after the CF closes, but before
> it's time to do the February releases' notes).

Gah, I'd skipped this thread, because I was OK, if not happy, about the
original modest proposal (trimming to supported versions). My fault.

For the record: I think this is a terrible idea. Makes it much harder to
figure out what changed when, and requires per-branch incantations to
grep through the log.   That's not to speak of the fact that now it's
just about impossible to reference all releasenotes on the website in a
useful manner now.

For crying out loud, super prominent and often referenced URLs like
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/release-10.html
are now broken, and soon URLs like
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/release-10.html
will be too.

I don't understand how this can be considered a good idea.

Greetings,

Andres Freund