Re: [HACKERS] CVS Branch Tagging... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas G. Lockhart
Subject Re: [HACKERS] CVS Branch Tagging...
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Msg-id 362EC1A2.36960647@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] CVS Branch Tagging...  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] CVS Branch Tagging...  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: [HACKERS] CVS Branch Tagging...  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: [HACKERS] CVS Branch Tagging...  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: [HACKERS] CVS Branch Tagging...  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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> While it will be possible, I would like people to concentrate on the
> existing 6.4 issues we have, and discourage parallel development on
> separate final and features source trees.

As Bruce describes, a "quiet time" just before and up to a month after a
major release is a _really_ good idea. For a couple of reasons:

1) it lets us put out bugfix releases with a minimum of trouble

2) it lets people planning larger changes for the next release to work
on a stable, quiet tree, with some assurance that they will likely be
able to remerge their work when things unfreeze.

imho we made a few too many changes (leading to uncertainties in exactly
how much had changed, and uncertainty in how much might be newly broken)
in the v6.3->v6.3.1->v6.3.2 release series, and we should try to be even
quieter this time around.

Bruce, can you add the following items to the ToDo for docs:

> Docs
> ----
> generate html/postscript documentation
(User's Guide, Administrator's Guide, Programmer's Guide) (Thomas)
> make sure all changes are documented properly (All)

markup and merge JDBC docs from Peter (Thomas, others??)
merge the release notes into doc/src/sgml/release.sgml (Bruce, Thomas)
generate new text-format INSTALL and README from sgml sources (Thomas)

Thanks.
                - Tom


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