Re: 7.5 change documentation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: 7.5 change documentation
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Msg-id 200401261753.i0QHr2J08559@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: 7.5 change documentation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> It's fine with me if Bruce prefers to build the release notes directly
> from the change logs.  As I saw it, the purpose of the temporary list of
> things-done-so-far is not to be the raw material for the release notes.
> It's to let alpha testers know about major changes that they might want
> to test.  As such, it's fine that it's incomplete.
> 
> The other way we could handle this goal is to be a tad more vigorous about
> checking off items as "done" in the TODO list.  However, Bruce generally
> doesn't bother to make a new entry in the TODO list if someone does
> something that wasn't in the list to begin with, and so I'm not sure
> it's the right vehicle.

Right. I see TODO as a way for us to remember our limitations, and to
document them for our users.  Once an item is completed, it didn't seem
necessary to put it on the TODO list.

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