Re: Postgres tracking - the pgtrack project

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Postgres tracking - the pgtrack project
Date: 2006-09-02 16:06:15
Message-ID: 200609021606.k82G6Ft00398@momjian.us
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Saturday 02 September 2006 11:42, Tom Lane wrote:
> > BTW, another "output" thing you might consider is "having draft release
> > notes ready-to-go on demand". Currently, Bruce prepares the release
> > notes on the basis of a very tedious scan of the CVS commit logs.
> > If this sort of stuff were being dropped into a tracker as it went
> > into the CVS tree, at least the research part of making the notes would
> > be zero-effort (or perhaps better to say that the work would be spread
> > out instead of concentrated).
>
> FWIW I have never understood why we don't require patch submitters/committers
> to update the release notes when they do the patch. I know Bruce says that
> it's not a problem for him to do it, but it sure would help out some of the
> other folks.

I can't even get documentation for many patches. I am hesitant to add
even more burden. I would prefer they concentrate on documentation.

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