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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 15:50:43 -0400
From: Nick Bastin <nbastin@rbbsystems.com>
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To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
CC: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > man pages/sgml synchronization (dump out man pages as postscript?)
> >
> > I'll need the sgml docs to firm up two weeks before release (Sept 15?)
> > to give time to generate hardcopy. The admin guide will be the last
> > converted, and it has the release notes and installation procedure which
> > need to be updated. Can we think about how to do the release notes and
> > installation for this release? I would suggest having a short readme on
> > how to install and read the docs, and have the detailed installation
> > procedure in sgml->html/hardcopy.
> 
> Yep.  Remember Marc's rule that you can't add features after beta
> starts, but you can be fixing things.  That buys us a lot of time.

Not to point out the obvious, but that's what beta traditionally *means*...
'feature complete'.

Nick