Re: Docbook toolchain interfering with patch review?

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Docbook toolchain interfering with patch review?
Date: 2009-07-16 20:31:23
Message-ID: b42b73150907161331i777ec3a0xc50244db1e6a7110@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Josh Berkus<josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> All,
>
> Well, after an hour of tinkering with docbook DTDs and openjade I've given
> up on building docs for the patch I was reviewing on my Mac.
>
> If I'm encountering this difficulty building docs, so are many of the other
> new patch reviewers.  Which means we're *not* reviewing docs for
> completeness, correctness, or correspondence to the actual feature syntax
> until beta time.
>
> This seems like a serious issue for development.  Reviewers, how many of you
> are able to build docs with each patch?

Isn't it possible though to write and/or review the documentation
patch without building it?

merlin

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