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To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Vik Fearing <[email protected]>
Cc: PG Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Links for upgraders
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:04:42 -0800
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On 02/12/2014 03:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
>> I think it would be even better to link directly to the migration notes,
>> not to the top-level section of the release notes. I suggest to add a
>> link target like
>
>> <sect2 id="release-9-2-4-migration">
>> <title>Migration to Version 9.2.4</title>
>
>> and then link to that.
>
> I experimented with this and didn't really find that it improved the
> browsing experience any compared to what Vik did. It might be noticeably
> better if we had any significant amount of text above the "migration"
> section, but we never do.
>
> I'd prefer *not* to add yet another place where the version number
> has to be manually adjusted each time one makes a new release-notes
> section. (This is a task we've failed at a few times in the past ;-),
> so I'm not just hypothecating.) So I'm -1 for this unless there's
> really, really strong contrary opinion.
Not to hijack the thread but after a decade and a half of writing
release notes one would think that we would have a parser that goes
through and automatically updates the version number :P
jD
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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