Re: Need of maintaining unsupported release notes in HEAD?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
Cc: Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Need of maintaining unsupported release notes in HEAD?
Date: 2018-11-21 18:03:36
Message-ID: 11702.1542823416@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> writes:
> On 11/21/18 2:51 AM, Haribabu Kommi wrote:> Attached patch removes all
> the older release notes sgml files from HEAD.
>> And also going forward, how about removing one major version file
>> whenever that is unsupported from HEAD?

> I have found these old notes useful multiple times in the past,
> especially when dealing with no longer supported versions of PostgreSQL
> or just to quickly check when some feature was first introduced. And
> removing them from the current master would make them a bit harder to
> navigate for a, in my opinion, tiny gain in reduced maintenance burden.

Yeah, "delete them altogether" seems to be a nonstarter. There was some
discussion in the last thread about shoving the old release notes out to a
different document, or putting them on the website separately, and perhaps
that would fly. But nobody's done the work to make it happen.

regards, tom lane

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