Re: Alpha Releases: Docs? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Alpha Releases: Docs?
Date
Msg-id 4A79EBDA.9060904@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Alpha Releases: Docs?  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Alpha Releases: Docs?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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> What I would like to avoid is a situation where we're basically ready
> to go with beta and Bruce says, "Hold on, everybody, it's going to
> take another two weeks while I plow through 600 commit messages."  I
> have a theory that that work can be spread out and much of it done in
> advance and not necessarily by Bruce.  However, that theory has yet to
> be tested, and the committers (principally Tom and Bruce) have to be
> open to it for it to have any chance of success.

I just talked to Bruce on IM, and he said that he would NOT use any
release notes we produce no matter how good they are.

Therefore, us trying to help by producing alpha release notes is a waste
of time; I won't bother.

Instead, I'll just write up a brief, informal user-friendly list of
features and changes, and we can release that combined with the cvslog.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com


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