Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié sep 05 20:24:08 -0300 2012:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > The only reason there is a significant delay is that the administrators
> > have chosen not to run the process more than once every 4 hours. That's
> > a choice not dictated by the process they are using, but by other
> > considerations concerning the machine it's being run on. Since I am not
> > one of the admins and don't really want to take responsibility for it I
> > am not going to second guess them. On the very rare occasions when I
> > absolutely have to have the totally up to date docs I build them myself
> > - it takes about 60 seconds on my modest hardware.
>
> I think the argument for having a quick docs build service is not about
> the time needed, but the need to have all the appropriate tools
> installed. While I can understand that argument for J Random Hacker,
> I'm mystified why Bruce doesn't seem to have bothered to get a working
> SGML toolset installed. It's not like editing the docs is a one-shot
> task for him.
As far as I understand, Bruce's concern is not about seeing the docs
built himself, but having an HTML copy published somewhere that he can
point people to, after applying some patch. To me, that's a perfectly
legitimate reason to want to have them quickly.
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