Re: small but useful patches for text search

Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > OK, I am all wet.  I now understand why the editing is the
> > time-consuming part of this job.  On the plus side it is probably
> > possible to parallelize it to some degree by splitting the list into N
> > pieces after the "remove insignificant items" step.
> 
> The advantage of having one person do it (and do it over a short period
> of time) is that you end up with a fairly uniform "voice" across the
> whole set of notes.  Since we lack a professional copy editor, we'd have
> a hard time coming out with something that wasn't pretty obviously a
> patchwork if several people did bits of it.
> 
> In any case, the release notes aren't normally a bottleneck.  I still
> think that Bruce had his priorities out of whack in not cleaning up
> his open-items list before doing this.  If he had done so, nobody
> would have noticed how long the notes took.

Ah, but the open items list is never done;  it is always in flux and
will be probably until final release.  Also, you can't just put out the
open items list becuase then there is a flurry of activity and people
want you to keep the list current.

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