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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Do we need release notes for an alpha?  Once I do the release notes, it
> is possible to miss subtle changes in the code that aren't mentioned in
> commit messages.

If the commit message isn't clear about something, you'd likely miss the
issue anyway, no?  Anyway, once the release notes are in the tree, we
could expect that anyone committing a user-visible semantics change should
update the release notes themselves.

			regards, tom lane


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