Re: Alpha 1 release notes

On mån, 2009-08-17 at 10:39 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> Attached is a new draft of the "release notes".
> 
> What I've done in this version is added more subsections and arranged
> stuff into groups by funcitonality area.  I think this makes the notes
> vastly easier to scan; having 25 items generically under "server" wasn't
> helpful at all to find features and fixes.
> 
> I'd like to do 2 more things today:
> 
> a) rewrite a lot of the feature explanations more clearly so that most
> of our users can understand (and test) them.
> 
> b) check against the gitlog to make sure we haven't missed anything.
> 
> What's my deadline?

When you're done, run the file through

pandoc -f rst -t docbook

and paste it into the release notes SGML source.  (Maybe create a new
file for 8.5 already.)