Re: Changelog and 7.1.3 release

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Changelog and 7.1.3 release
Date: 2001-09-07 20:17:34
Message-ID: 200109072017.f87KHYc21507@candle.pha.pa.us
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Can we come to some kind of decision on this before going beta?

> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Can I ask why we are mentioning the changelog for the release and not
> > the list from the HISTORY file? Any why are we putting the changelog in
> > the tarball anyway? Seems that could easily go on a web site.
>
> The point of these changelogs was to show the changes between beta and rc
> versions, because those were not necessarily recorded in the HISTORY file.
> However, putting these in the tarball is questionable (if you already
> downloaded the tarball then you might as well proceed with installing it),
> still having them there now is even more questionable (who cares?), and
> making them for minor releases is redundant and confusing. I vote for
> removing them.
>
> First prize for Consistency in Naming, btw.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
>
>

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