To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>,
	PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: 9.1 release notes 
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Comments: In-reply-to Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
	message dated "Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:02:07 -0400"
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:53:54 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> In terms of future releases, I think we'd probably need to work a bit
> harder on the alpha release notes if we want to avoid the full release
> note generation process.  That may be a good thing for us to consider
> in the future, but at least for this release I'd say we weren't quite
> there.

To my mind, one of the core ideas about the alpha releases was to be
able to pop them out with minimal overhead.  It's *already* the case
that generating release notes is the most expensive part of the alpha
release process --- in fact, I'd venture that it's 90% or more of the
effort, just to produce the kind of notes we've produced for the past
alphas.  I can't see that we're going to put significantly more effort
than that into them.

			regards, tom lane