Re: 9.0 release notes done

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 02:18:04PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 3/22/10 7:46 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I do not require them to submit SGML;  just some format where I
> > can identify the lines that changed.  I can do the same for the
> > release notes.  I have to check the diffs anyway so manually
> > merging in the changes isn't a problem.
> 
> So there are 2 large problems I have with the SGML version, let's
> see if we can deal with them separately:
> 
> (1) re-arranging and regrouping the items: the stuff in the release
> notes should end up in 7-8 clear categories, with items arranged in
> descending order by importance.  SGML+CVS makes this a task which
> cannot be done collaboratively.

We could throw this on a one of the git mirrors.

> (2) Seeing my edits.  There's no edit-->view-->edit cycle with the SGML,
> and it's really hard to check grammar and languge ... let alone compare
> stuff to the alphas ... in raw SGML.

While not a WYSIWYG, shelling out to "make" after each disk write
should do what you want.  Which editor(s) do you like to use?  Emacs
and vim both have ways to do this. :)

Cheers,
David.
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