Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >> > 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.
> >>
> >> Yes, although Bruce *has* asked for help in cleaning up the open-items list.
> >
> > Uh, not now; ?I put up the list only so people wouldn't think I was
> > hiding things, and I said it wasn't cleaned up. ?What is so hard for
> > people to understand about that. ?This is quite annoying.
>
> If I understand correctly, you're saying that you didn't want to have
> help with the release notes, you don't want help cleaning up your
> mailbox, but you do want beta to wait until you are done doing those
> things and any resulting action items have been completed. Is that
> right?
>
> I don't think anyone thinks you're hiding anything, but I think there
> is a general desire to move this thing along as quickly as reasonably
> possible.
And to answer your question about the release notes, Tom is right that
it probably has to be done by one person because it needs a consistent
voice, and someone has to get the entire release notes in their head so
they can see logical sections/groupings, etc. Once it is done, as it is
now, people can jump in and add improvements.
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