Re: Detailed release notes

On Sat, Sep  7, 2024 at 10:12:00AM +0800, jian he wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 6:30 AM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 at 21:34, Marcos Pegoraro <marcos@f10.com.br> wrote:
> > > I understand your point, and agree with that for previous releases, but since we have a month only for version
17,will this process work properly until that date ?
 
> > > I think a release notes is more read as soon as it is available than other months, isn't it ?
> > > And this feature is just a HTML page, so if it's done manually or automatically, from the reader point of view
it'llbe exactly the same.
 
> >
> > Big +1 to this. It would definitely be great if we would have these
> > commit links for previous release notes. But the PG17 GA release is
> > probably happening in 19 days on September 26th. I feel like we should
> > focus on getting the manual improvements from Jian He merged,
> > otherwise we'll end up with release notes for PG17 on release day that
> > are significantly less useful than they could have been. Let's not
> > make perfect the enemy of good here.
> >
> 
> hi. Thanks for your interest.
> patch updated.
> 
> 
> I have proof-read release-17.sgml again,
> making sure the commit url's commit is the same as
> release-17.sgml comment's git commit.

I will write a script to do this, but I am not sure I will have it done
by the time we release Postgres 17.

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