On 09/06/2012 03:43 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 09:33:35PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> >> On 09/05/2012 09:25 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 09:56:32PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>>> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of miƩ sep 05 20:24:08 -0300 2012: >>>>> Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >>>>>> The only reason there is a significant delay is that the administrators >>>>>> have chosen not to run the process more than once every 4 hours. That's >>>>>> a choice not dictated by the process they are using, but by other >>>>>> considerations concerning the machine it's being run on. Since I am not >>>>>> one of the admins and don't really want to take responsibility for it I >>>>>> am not going to second guess them. On the very rare occasions when I >>>>>> absolutely have to have the totally up to date docs I build them myself >>>>>> - it takes about 60 seconds on my modest hardware. >>>>> I think the argument for having a quick docs build service is not about >>>>> the time needed, but the need to have all the appropriate tools >>>>> installed. While I can understand that argument for J Random Hacker, >>>>> I'm mystified why Bruce doesn't seem to have bothered to get a working >>>>> SGML toolset installed. It's not like editing the docs is a one-shot >>>>> task for him. >>>> As far as I understand, Bruce's concern is not about seeing the docs >>>> built himself, but having an HTML copy published somewhere that he can >>>> point people to, after applying some patch. To me, that's a perfectly >>>> legitimate reason to want to have them quickly. >>> Correct. I have always had a working SGML toolset. If we are not going >>> to have the developer site run more often, I will just go back to >>> setting up my own public doc build, like I used to do. I removed mine >>> when the official one was more current/reliable --- if that has changed, >>> I will return to my old setup, and publish my own URL for users to >>> verify doc changes. >> >> How often do you want? After all, >> <http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/index.html> is >> presumably going to keep pointing to where it now points. > > Well, the old code checked every five minutes, and it rebuilt in 4 > minutes, so there was a max of 10 minutes delay.
the new code gives you a lot more though - it makes sure that the code the docs refer to actually builds and passes testing, it uses the exact same toolchain and setup/infrastructure that we build the official snapshots/tarballs, the official PDFs and reuses an important piece of our environment - the buildfarm-client. I'm having a hard time understanding why getting a bit more frequency for the odd "docs only"+"need to show somebody the html and not the patch" requirement is really something we "need". Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers