On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:10:23AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > On 06/27/2013 08:56 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:> Adding the names to each > release note item is not a problem; the > > problem is the volume of names that overwhelms the release note text. If > > we went that direction, I predict we would just remove _all_ names from > > the release notes. > > That's not a realistic objection. We'd be talking about one or two more > names per patch, with a handful of exceptions.
It is realistic because I did this for 9.2 beta and people didn't like it; how much more realistic do you want? > If you're going to make an objection, object to the amount of extra work > it would be, which is significant with the current state of our > technology. Realistically, it'll take the help of additional people. No extra work required, it is all copy/paste for me. > On 06/27/2013 09:19 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > > Yeah. Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of the audience for > > the release notes doesn't actually give a darn who implemented what. > > There is some argument to be made about moving the whole "list of names" > to some other resource, like a web page. In fact, if the mythical land > where we have a new CF application, that other resource could even be > generated by the CF app with some hand-tweaking (this would also require > some tweaks to community profiles etc.). Yes, I am fine with moving all names. However, I predict you will do more to demotivate patch submitters than you will to motivate patch reviewers. That is fine with me, as motivating developers/reviewers is not our top priority. > What I would be opposed to is continuing to list the original authors in > the release notes and putting reviewers, testers, co-authors, etc. on a > separate web page. If we're gonna move people, let's move *all* of > them. Also, it needs to be on something more trustworthy than the wiki, > like maybe putting it at postgresql.org/developers/9.3/ I think you will have trouble keeping those two lists synchronized. I think you will need to create a release note document that includes all names, then copy that to a website and remove the names just before the release is packaged. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
