On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 13:26, Tom Lane wrote: > We do already have a practice of adding notes about significant changes > to release.sgml as they are made. That's relatively new though, and I > dunno if it's helped Bruce prepare the finished release notes or not.
Right, we also did a pretty bad job of incrementally updating release.sgml during the development cycle: only a small portion of all the changes that we made actually got added to it. I think it would be a good idea to try to be better at this during the 7.5 cycle. When 7.5 development begins, we should divide release.sgml into the relevant sections (e.g. "libpq", "contrib", "performance", "highlights of the release", etc.), and then keep it updated whenever a relevant change is made. IMHO that would be bother easier to maintain (see we need to write CVS changelog entries anyway, and Bruce wouldn't need to spend as long summarizing the changes at the end of the dev cycle), as well as producing a better quality release notes -- but since Bruce is the one actually doing the work, I'm content to leave this in his hands. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
