On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 02:18:04PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > On 3/22/10 7:46 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I do not require them to submit SGML; just some format where I > > can identify the lines that changed. I can do the same for the > > release notes. I have to check the diffs anyway so manually > > merging in the changes isn't a problem. > > So there are 2 large problems I have with the SGML version, let's > see if we can deal with them separately: > > (1) re-arranging and regrouping the items: the stuff in the release > notes should end up in 7-8 clear categories, with items arranged in > descending order by importance. SGML+CVS makes this a task which > cannot be done collaboratively.
We could throw this on a one of the git mirrors. > (2) Seeing my edits. There's no edit-->view-->edit cycle with the SGML, > and it's really hard to check grammar and languge ... let alone compare > stuff to the alphas ... in raw SGML. While not a WYSIWYG, shelling out to "make" after each disk write should do what you want. Which editor(s) do you like to use? Emacs and vim both have ways to do this. :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
