Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com> > wrote: > >> Robert, ?this has been discussed many times before, and most people agree > >> with > >> you, but Bruce doesn't. I think the ony way this will change is if someone > >> takes on the role of "release notes manager", subscrbes to pgsql-commits, > >> and > >> then starts updating a wiki page as each item is committed. Once other > >> committers see that, I'm guessing they will start helping, and eventually > >> Bruce will join in. Outside of that I think we're wasting our time on this. > > > > This is actually a good point regardless of Bruce. The run down is this: > > > > We have an individual that does stuff a certain way. That way works for > > him. That individual is the one actually doing the work. > > > > We have other individuals who would like to do it a different way. > > > > I invite those individuals to do so. If there way proves to be more > > efficient the community will move in that direction. > > Sadly, this approach seems to have a high percentage probability of > being completely wasted effort. So I agree with Robert Treat: we're > wasting our time on this. As I said upthread, I am still willing to > help edit release notes, either now or most likely in the future, if > there is a list of commits to start from (and although I may find it > odd, Bruce feels it's the easier half of the job, so, fine). If that > is helpful, great. If it's not, that's OK too.
So far taking the CVS logs and making a list of only the items we want for the release notes took one day; researching and rewording the items so they are ready for the release notes took five days; grouping them into sections and rewording/combining, 1/2 a day, and adding SGML markup will be another few hours. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers