| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Release Note Changes |
| Date: | 2007-12-09 23:01:28 |
| Message-ID: | 475C73C8.80309@commandprompt.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> However as a user I find it helpful to get a kind of overview of the kinds of
>>> invisible changes there were so I can get a feel for the magnitude of the
>>> improvements between versions.
>>>
>> I agree with this as well. However, I am starting to wonder if the
>> "release notes" is the place for this. I am starting to think that
>> instead we need a white paper on the release (or each release) that is
>> categorized and reasonably in depth on "why" 8.3 (or 8.4 etc..).
>
> Sure, and we could perhaps put up with some gritty detail there, though
> it doesn't solve the problem of people's work not being mentioned.
> Seems that is a separate problem.
I assumed the white paper would have proper attribution.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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