Robert Haas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > OK, I am all wet. ?I now understand why the editing is the > >> > time-consuming part of this job. ?On the plus side it is probably > >> > possible to parallelize it to some degree by splitting the list into N > >> > pieces after the "remove insignificant items" step. > >> > >> The advantage of having one person do it (and do it over a short period > >> of time) is that you end up with a fairly uniform "voice" across the > >> whole set of notes. ?Since we lack a professional copy editor, we'd have > >> a hard time coming out with something that wasn't pretty obviously a > >> patchwork if several people did bits of it. > >> > >> In any case, the release notes aren't normally a bottleneck. ?I still > >> think that Bruce had his priorities out of whack in not cleaning up > >> his open-items list before doing this. ?If he had done so, nobody > >> would have noticed how long the notes took. > > > > Ah, but the open items list is never done; ?it is always in flux and > > will be probably until final release. ?Also, you can't just put out the > > open items list becuase then there is a flurry of activity and people > > want you to keep the list current. > > At this point I think we are just trying to get a list of items that > need to be done before we can release beta. Very little, if anything, > should be getting added to that list at this point.
You can say that, but things are going to be uncovered during beta regularly. -- 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
