On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> > OK, I am all wet. I now understand why the editing is the
>> > time-consuming part of this job. On the plus side it is probably
>> > possible to parallelize it to some degree by splitting the list into N
>> > pieces after the "remove insignificant items" step.
>>
>> The advantage of having one person do it (and do it over a short period
>> of time) is that you end up with a fairly uniform "voice" across the
>> whole set of notes. Since we lack a professional copy editor, we'd have
>> a hard time coming out with something that wasn't pretty obviously a
>> patchwork if several people did bits of it.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Ah, but the open items list is never done; it is always in flux and
> will be probably until final release. Also, you can't just put out the
> open items list becuase then there is a flurry of activity and people
> want you to keep the list current.
At this point I think we are just trying to get a list of items that
need to be done before we can release beta. Very little, if anything,
should be getting added to that list at this point.
...Robert
