On 2019-02-05 09:12:56 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > For the record: I think this is a terrible idea. Makes it much harder to > > figure out what changed when, and requires per-branch incantations to > > grep through the log. > > Uh ... "grep through the log"? The git log output hasn't changed at all.
Sorry, release notes. > I've personally never found the SGML/HTML release notes to be even > slightly useful for search purposes, because they're spread across so > many files. This just changes how many copies of those files we have. IDK, it's really easy right now to just do a grep term doc/src/sgml/release*sgml, and that gives pretty useful results. It's pretty common that a feature is not that easily searchable in the git log, because the focus is a lot lower level. > You can still point to, say, > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/release.html > > There's maybe two more clicks needed to reach any particular back > branch from there, but I would not call that "just about impossible". > > Anyway, if people want something resembling the old presentation, > I think the way to get there is to have some sort of aggregate > release notes in a separate place on the web site. We'd discussed > that briefly upthread, but no one's volunteered to push it through. Yea, and now people's old links are broken. I don't understand how the status quo wouldn't have at least required fixing that before pushing this into the wild. Greetings, Andres Freund