From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Immediate shutdown and system(3) |
Date: | 2009-03-18 21:31:26 |
Message-ID: | 603c8f070903181431w4ee1ed14ubec078682fc30dff@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>>> The CVS commit message.
>
>> Is there some reason we don't just put it in the release notes as
>> *part* of the commit? Someone can always go back and edit it later.
>
> That was suggested before, and I think we actually tried it for a few
> months. It didn't work.
>
> Putting an item in the release notes *properly* is a whole lot more
> work than putting a short bit of text in the CVS log (especially for
> committers whose first language isn't English). It would also
> create a lot more merge-collision issues for unrelated patches.
Yeah, I wouldn't ask people to include it in the patches they post.
That would be a pain, and people would probably tend (with the best of
intentions) to inflate the relative importance of their own work. I
was thinking that the committer could make a quick entry at the time
they actually committed the patch, so that the step you describe below
could start with something other than an email box.
> It's less trouble overall to do the editing, organizing, and SGML-ifying
> of all the release notes at once. Also you end up with a better
> product, assuming that whoever is doing the notes puts in reasonable
> editorial effort.
If it works for the people who are doing it, good enough.
...Robert
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