I just talked to Josh Berkus via phone.
We have decided to put the rough commit messages on a wiki for 8.5
final so they can be easily edited by the community, before markup is
added and they are moved to the SGML docs. This should increase
community involvement in editing the items, and if it goes well, we can
try to do this in a more fine-grained fashion for every alpha release
for 8.6.
For those who need details on how long each item takes, see:
http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog.html#March_25_2009
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