Re: Release notes in appendix?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Release notes in appendix?
Date: 2009-06-05 21:02:13
Message-ID: 20090605210213.GG4500@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > Right now our release notes are in the documentation appendix:
> > > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/appendixes.html
> > > The number and size of the release notes really overwhelms the section.
> > > I am wondering if we should move the release notes out into its own
> > > upper section.
> >
> > I think they are in the right place logically. If you feel they are
> > getting too big, maybe it's time to discuss dropping the oldest
> > information.
>
> OK, let's just leave it then. It seemed to me the release notes were
> burried among other unrelated items but if you think they look OK we can
> just leave them there.

Another idea would be to turn each major version into its own <sect1>,
and have minor versions as <sect2> instead (so for example we would have
release-8-3-6 as sect2, not sect1).

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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