Re: Release notes

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Release notes
Date: 2006-09-21 00:06:04
Message-ID: 20060921000603.GA9070@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:10:13PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > Also, not sure what the thoughts are regarding surnames. I'm referred to
> > > as both Simon and Simon Riggs in the release notes. Should we have a
> > > policy of first mention uses full name, subsequent mentions just use
> > > first name if there is no confusion by doing so?
> >
> > Hrm, I'd assumed that "well known" community members didn't get Surname
> > mentions... maybe we should just stick to "First Last" everywhere..
>
> My system has been to use first names if the person appears at the
> bottom of the TODO list, else use full name in all references. We refer
> to too many people to use full names only on the first reference.

The problem is that the release notes don't contain the bottom of the
TODO list.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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