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. 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. > That's not to speak of the fact that now it's > just about impossible to reference all releasenotes on the website in a > useful manner now. 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. regards, tom lane
