Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Robert Treat wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 14:49, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > > I again will not be able to complete the release notes today as > > > > > > promised. My next target date is Monday, August 18. Sorry. > > > > > > > > > > Will that be in a few years, or are you traveling backwards in time? > > > > > ;-) > > > > > > > > Sorry, September 18. I will probably be done before then, but it seems > > > > best to set a date I know I will hit. > > > > > > Here we go again with another developer who keeps making endless promises > > > for > > > vaporware patches that never show up. We've already set on-disk bit-map > > > indexes straight on this and I think giving you special treatment sets a > > > bad > > > tone for the project. At this point I think we have to cut the release > > > notes > > > from this release... maybe they can be added back in for 8.3. > > > > Very good one! > > Yeah, it was funny, but it points a problem which is that we are > overloading you to do the release notes thing. I agree that we should > push individual developers to include release notes updates on the > patches they submit. They are easier to write than the documentation > update in any case (which as you say, not everyone submits), mainly > because they are way shorter. > > (Or maybe not _push_ them to do that, but at least not forbid updating > the release notes which AFAIK is the current policy.)
There are problems with this. First, since everyone isn't going to do it, I still have to go through all the CVS logs, and then I have to merge the created list to avoid duplicates. Then there is the problem that we need consistent wording through the release notes, so again, I have to wack around some more text. Doing it in one pass is the most reliable, and efficient. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend