Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > OK, I am all wet. ?I now understand why the editing is the
> >> > time-consuming part of this job. ?On the plus side it is probably
> >> > possible to parallelize it to some degree by splitting the list into N
> >> > pieces after the "remove insignificant items" step.
> >>
> >> The advantage of having one person do it (and do it over a short period
> >> of time) is that you end up with a fairly uniform "voice" across the
> >> whole set of notes. ?Since we lack a professional copy editor, we'd have
> >> a hard time coming out with something that wasn't pretty obviously a
> >> patchwork if several people did bits of it.
> >>
> >> In any case, the release notes aren't normally a bottleneck. ?I still
> >> think that Bruce had his priorities out of whack in not cleaning up
> >> his open-items list before doing this. ?If he had done so, nobody
> >> would have noticed how long the notes took.
> >
> > Ah, but the open items list is never done; ?it is always in flux and
> > will be probably until final release. ?Also, you can't just put out the
> > open items list becuase then there is a flurry of activity and people
> > want you to keep the list current.
>
> At this point I think we are just trying to get a list of items that
> need to be done before we can release beta. Very little, if anything,
> should be getting added to that list at this point.
You can say that, but things are going to be uncovered during beta
regularly.
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