Thread: release date
I have modified release.sgml to have titles that include the release date, so it shows as: Release 7.0 (2000-10-12) Is that OK? There never seemed to be a good place to put the release date. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
Bruce Momjian writes: > I have modified release.sgml to have titles that include the release > date, so it shows as: > > Release 7.0 (2000-10-12) > > Is that OK? There never seemed to be a good place to put the release > date. <chapter> <title>Release 7.0</title> <note> <title>Release date<title> <simpara>2000-10-12</simpara> </note> <para> ... the rest ... -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes: > <chapter> > <title>Release 7.0</title> > <note> > <title>Release date<title> > <simpara>2000-10-12</simpara> > </note> I kinda like having it in the title, actually, because that way the table-of-contents will show the release date history all on one page. I frequently find myself trying to guess which release cycle a given past date was in --- and AFAIK we have no handy reference anywhere. The top of http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/release.htm will become such a reference with Bruce's change. regards, tom lane
> > <chapter> > > <title>Release 7.0</title> > > <note> > > <title>Release date<title> > > <simpara>2000-10-12</simpara> > > </note> > I kinda like having it in the title, actually, because that way the > table-of-contents will show the release date history all on one page. > I frequently find myself trying to guess which release cycle a given > past date was in --- and AFAIK we have no handy reference anywhere. Hmmph. I'd have guessed that memorizing seven dates would be the least challenging thing you've accomplished in quite some time ;) Anyway, I'll point out that we should try for appropriate markup (whatever that is, but imho probably without dates in chapter titles), and let Peter's upcoming style sheets solve any requirements for output arrangement. Embedding dates in the titles is a short-cut to having a table of release dates, which we should put somewhere in front of the release notes chapters... - Thomas
> Bruce Momjian writes: > > > I have modified release.sgml to have titles that include the release > > date, so it shows as: > > > > Release 7.0 (2000-10-12) > > > > Is that OK? There never seemed to be a good place to put the release > > date. > > <chapter> > <title>Release 7.0</title> > > <note> > <title>Release date<title> > <simpara>2000-10-12</simpara> > </note> > > <para> > ... the rest ... Done. New code: <title>Release 7.0.3</title> <note> <title>Release date<title> <simpara>2000-11-11</simpara> </note> -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes: > Hmmph. I'd have guessed that memorizing seven dates would be the least > challenging thing you've accomplished in quite some time ;) There are more than seven if you count the dot-releases ;-). But sure, if you want to extract the info into a table, do that instead. regards, tom lane
> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes: > > Hmmph. I'd have guessed that memorizing seven dates would be the least > > challenging thing you've accomplished in quite some time ;) > > There are more than seven if you count the dot-releases ;-). But sure, > if you want to extract the info into a table, do that instead. You know, it may be cool to put it in a pg_ table. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026