Re: Draft release notes complete

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> On 5/10/12 9:44 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On tor, 2012-05-10 at 10:44 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> The big take-away is that the release notes are mostly for blame and
>>> to designate a go-to person for feature problems, not for giving
>>> credit,
>>
>> Then reviewers should be removed.
>
> I disagree.  We're trying to get more reviewers, and encourage them to
> do more reviewing.  Giving credit is a big part of that.

As much as that's nice, I don't think that's quite enough reason to do
so, at least not as a last minute afterthought in trying to finalize
the release notes.

On the other hand, if reviewers are considered extra "go-to" people
for the purposes of 'blamecasting' if something goes wrong with a new
feature, that's actually a fine reason to include them. If both the
developer *and* the reviewer missed an issue, then *both* are
"blameworthy," and if we have any features gone desperately wrong,
both deserve to have appropriate things thrown at them.
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