From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, yazicivo(at)ttnet(dot)net(dot)tr, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: running script on server shutdown (TODO) |
Date: | 2005-12-12 03:10:45 |
Message-ID: | 200512120310.jBC3Ajg18154@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Neil Conway wrote:
> I agree, but I think this is another symptom of having only one person
> maintain the list. It is a non-trivial amount of work to understand all
> the arguments in a complex -hackers thread and distill that into a few
> accurate sentences that summarize the consensus (if there even was
> one!). I'm not at all surprised when the TODO entry that results is
> incomplete or misleading if the person doing the summary wasn't one of
> the primary participants in the -hackers thread.
Why can't others modify the TODO list, or FAQ for that matter. I get
patches for the later, but few for the former.
>
> Short of going to a wiki, I think we can at least make it easier for
> other committers to modify the TODO list. What format is doc/TODO in,
> anyway? (It doesn't seem to be normal plaintext.) Why is there also an
> HTML copy of the TODO list (doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html) kept in CVS? (I'd
> rather we not keep generated files in CVS, in general.)
>
> I think a concrete improvement would be to get rid of all that, and
> maintain a master copy of the TODO list in some sane format -- or
> failing that, DocBook :)
I replied to this in another email.
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