David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > So far taking the CVS logs and making a list of only the items we want
> > for the release notes took one day; researching and rewording the
> > items
> > so they are ready for the release notes took five days; grouping them
> > into sections and rewording/combining, 1/2 a day, and adding SGML
> > markup
> > will be another few hours.
>
> FWIW, this is a thankless job, and I commend you for taking it on,
> Bruce. Others may feel that there are better ways to do it, or to
> track changes through time so it's easier to generate the changes list
> at release time, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to do what
> you do for this, so many thanks for putting together a useful list of
> changes every release.
A preliminary version of the 8.4 release note are now online; the
details are on my blog, including the release note creation process:
http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog.html#March_25_2009
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