On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> > Josh Berkus wrote:
>> >> All,
>> >>
>> >> > 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.
>> >>
>> >> Yes, although Bruce *has* asked for help in cleaning up the open-items list.
>> >
>> > Uh, not now; ?I put up the list only so people wouldn't think I was
>> > hiding things, and I said it wasn't cleaned up. ?What is so hard for
>> > people to understand about that. ?This is quite annoying.
>>
>> If I understand correctly, you're saying that you didn't want to have
>> help with the release notes, you don't want help cleaning up your
>> mailbox, but you do want beta to wait until you are done doing those
>> things and any resulting action items have been completed. Is that
>> right?
>>
>> I don't think anyone thinks you're hiding anything, but I think there
>> is a general desire to move this thing along as quickly as reasonably
>> possible.
>
> And to answer your question about the release notes, Tom is right that
> it probably has to be done by one person because it needs a consistent
> voice, and someone has to get the entire release notes in their head so
> they can see logical sections/groupings, etc. Once it is done, as it is
> now, people can jump in and add improvements.
Fair enough. I'm just looking for a way to help out so we can get
this done. I am not coming up with much that seems to be helpful. I
was planning to do some comments on your mailbox file but Tom beat me
to the punch.
...Robert
