Re: Release notes

Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> How is maintaining another file on every commit going to go over?
>
> > Well, it would clearly not be on every commit: most commits don't
> > warrant a mention in the release notes. If committers think that this
> > burden is too much to bear, please speak up.
>
> Well, I'm willing to (and I think usually have) put release-note-grade
> descriptions into commit log messages, but I'm not willing to add "edit
> release.sgml" to the already long process, for two basic reasons:
>
> * it'd make release.sgml into a commit bottleneck --- if everyone is
> doing it this way, everyone's local copy of the file would be constantly
> out of date, and merge conflicts would be an everyday problem.
>
> * correct SGML markup is a PITA.
>
> If *someone else* wants to troll the commit logs every so often and make
> entries into release.sgml, that's fine with me. But I don't have the
> bandwidth.

That is pretty much my objection, even though I have to spend the days
to create release.sgml.

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