Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft
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Msg-id 20200512005714.GN4666@momjian.us
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In response to Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft
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On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 08:34:56PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2020-May-11, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > We have long discussed how much of the release notes is to reward
> > behavior, and we have settled on having the names on the items, and the
> > Acknowledgments section at the bottom.
> 
> Yes, we had to touch the source code in order to add documentation; but
> so what?  Everything touches the source code, but that doesn't mean it
> should be listed there.  I don't see what's the problem with having a
> new subsection in the relnotes entitled "Documentation" where these two
> items appears (glossary + new doc table format) are listed.  It's not
> like it's going to cost us a lot of space or anything.
> 
> I don't think there is any circularity argument BTW -- we're not going
> to document that we added release notes.  And changing the table format
> is not entirely pointless, given that we've historically had trouble
> with these tables (read: they're totally unusable in PDF).

Well, are you suggesting a new section because the glossary shouldn't be
listed under source code, or because you want the function reformatting
added?  We just need to understand what the purpose is.  We already have
the glossary listed, since that is new and user-visible.

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