Re: Release notes

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> How is maintaining another file on every commit going to go over?

> Well, it would clearly not be on every commit: most commits don't 
> warrant a mention in the release notes. If committers think that this 
> burden is too much to bear, please speak up.

Well, I'm willing to (and I think usually have) put release-note-grade
descriptions into commit log messages, but I'm not willing to add "edit
release.sgml" to the already long process, for two basic reasons:

* it'd make release.sgml into a commit bottleneck --- if everyone is
doing it this way, everyone's local copy of the file would be constantly
out of date, and merge conflicts would be an everyday problem.

* correct SGML markup is a PITA.

If *someone else* wants to troll the commit logs every so often and make
entries into release.sgml, that's fine with me.  But I don't have the
bandwidth.
        regards, tom lane