Re: Need of maintaining unsupported release notes in HEAD? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Need of maintaining unsupported release notes in HEAD?
Date
Msg-id 11702.1542823416@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Need of maintaining unsupported release notes in HEAD?  (Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>)
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Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:
> On 11/21/18 2:51 AM, Haribabu Kommi wrote:> Attached patch removes all 
> the older release notes sgml files from HEAD.
>> And also going forward, how about removing one major version file 
>> whenever that is unsupported from HEAD?

> I have found these old notes useful multiple times in the past, 
> especially when dealing with no longer supported versions of PostgreSQL 
> or just to quickly check when some feature was first introduced. And 
> removing them from the current master would make them a bit harder to 
> navigate for a, in my opinion, tiny gain in reduced maintenance burden.

Yeah, "delete them altogether" seems to be a nonstarter.  There was some
discussion in the last thread about shoving the old release notes out to a
different document, or putting them on the website separately, and perhaps
that would fly.  But nobody's done the work to make it happen.

            regards, tom lane


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