Re: 7.4 compatibility question

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Neil Conway writes:
> 
> > So I think we could make the release notes more useful if we provided a
> > bit more detail in each entry, and documented changes more extensively.
> > We could also make better use of SGML, for example by adding <xref>s to
> > the release notes where applicable. I think we also need to *really*
> > maintain the release notes incrementally during 7.5 development, rather
> > than having Bruce summarize the CVS logs at the end. IMHO, every patch
> > that makes a significant change should update the release notes, when
> > the patch is applied.
> 
> I've been pushing this agenda for a few releases now, but some people have
> been, er, boycotting it.  I think, too, that release notes *must* be

If they _must_ be done the way you suggest, why have we been able to
generate reliable release notes all these years?

Basically, I think release notes are more efficiently written in batch
mode, meaning all at once --- sure, we could do it incrementally, but it
is more work to fiddle with it in pieces.

I want people to focus on reliable commit messages and I can handle the
release notes part.  The one advantage of incremental is that folks can
see what we have added so far, but it doesn't seem worth the extra work.

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