Re: Release note bloat is getting out of hand - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Release note bloat is getting out of hand
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Msg-id 54CF137C.3080109@agliodbs.com
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In response to Release note bloat is getting out of hand  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 02/01/2015 08:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I propose that we go over to a policy of keeping in HEAD only release
> notes for actively maintained branches, and that each back branch should
> retain notes only for branches that were actively maintained when it split
> off from HEAD.  This would keep about five years worth of history in
> Appendix E, which should be a roughly stable amount of text.

I'd like to keep a complete, downloadable version of the release notes
somewhere on the website; it's helpful to have "one big file" for
searches.  It doesn't need to be in our core docs, though.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com



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