Re: Release note bloat is getting out of hand

From: Steven Lembark <lembark(at)wrkhors(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: lembark(at)wrkhors(dot)com
Subject: Re: Release note bloat is getting out of hand
Date: 2015-02-04 15:57:03
Message-ID: 20150204095703.5836cd78.lembark@wrkhors.com
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> -1. I find it very useful to be able to go back through all the
> release notes using grep, and have done so on multiple occasions. It
> sounds like this policy would make that harder, and I don't see what
> we get out of of it. It doesn't bother me that the SGML documentation
> of the release notes is big; disk space is cheap.

Put the full release notes in a tarball on the website, distribute
the relevant portions with the distro?

A single wget "ftp://foo/bar-current.tar.gz" will pull the whole thing
for full history; through if you're grepping it having a set of files
with version-speicific changes works equaly well.

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