Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml Tag: REL7_4_STABLE

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > The only problem with removing HISTORY from CVS is that we will not have
> > an easily reable list of release changes _until_ we package the release.
> > Perhaps we should keep HISTORY in CVS, but regenerate it on tarball
> > packaging, and INSTALL too.
> 
> Confused here, but how "up to date" is HISTORY in CVS to start with?  I
> don't go out of my way to watch for them, but commits to HISTORY don't
> seem to be all that often to start with ... and how many ppl actually look
> at the HISTORY file *except* at release time?

Usually I modify HISTORY during beta, then move it to release.sgml, but
I could reverse that and do edits in release.sgml then regenerate and
copy HISTORY.  It is mostly during beta.  We could throw a URL into the
HISTORY file telling people where to look for the generated release
notes.

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