Open Items/Release (was [HACKERS]: Shouldn't pg_settings.enumvals...)

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Greg Smith wrote:
>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo:WishlistFor84
>
> No, "open items" is a list of tasks that must be completed before
> release, not a wishlist.

Moving this to a more appropriate list as not to bore all the hackers with 
wiki minutia.

After a bit of research I realized the original Wishlist page and format, 
which was quite active circa late 8.3, isn't really relevant anymore.  I 
just streamlined it to the parts that still make sense, which is just the 
initial proposals (few of them actually executed anyway).

I was trying to avoid creating a new page just for open-items.  On the 
original developer's wiki, there was an expansion of special-purpose pages 
for single tasks related to 8.3 that were really kind of confusing by the 
end.  I cleaned up a lot of that and would prefer not to go through that 
again.

With that in mind, here's what I think makes sense:

-Rename "ToDo:WishlistFor84" to "Proposed 8.4 Projects" since that's what 
it really ended up being.  While not strictly necessary, it suggests how a 
page like that should be named when the next release cycle starts, and 
that old page title needs to get rid of the old ToDo: baggage anyway.

-Create a "PostgreSQL 8.4.0 Development Archive" that all the no longer 
active pages can start moving to.  The goal will be that ultimately it 
will have *every* 8.4 page on it, as the main "Development Information" 
page moves to tracking the next version.  Push the page above 
(Wishlist->Proposed) and GSoC pages onto there as initial no longer 
mainstream content.

-Create a new "PostgreSQL 8.4 Release" page that tracks that process. 
Populate it right now with the "Open Items" list.  That gives a place to 
put other final release-oriented notes at, since the CommitFest pages are 
no longer going to be the place everything interesting is happening at.

I'm not sure whether that's the right title for the last page, part of why 
I didn't just do all of the above already.  But I think it's more 
appropriate to create a page addressing the 8.4 release checklist, with 
the coding "Open Items" just being the first section there, rather then 
creating a page for every individual task.  Maybe that's a better 
name--"PostgreSQL 8.4 Checklist"?

Anyway, just wanted to start kicking around ideas for how to usefully 
organize the end of the release cycle on the Wiki, which includes a bit of 
thinking about how that will smoothly transition to the next release.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD