Re: PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 release announcement draft

On 5/20/24 6:32 AM, David Rowley wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2024 at 22:11, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2024-May-16, David Rowley wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 17:37, zaidagilist <zaidagilist@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I am trying to open the 17 docs but it looks removed. Getting
>>>> following message "Page not found"
>>>>
>>>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/
>>>
>>> It's called "devel" for "development" until we branch sometime before July:
>>>
>>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/
>>
>> Hmm, but that would mean that the Beta1 announce would ship full of
>> links that will remain broken until July.  I'm not sure what the
>> workflow for this is, but I hope the /17/ URLs would become valid with
>> beta1, later this week.
> 
> I didn't quite click that it was Jonathan's links that were being
> complained about.
> 
> I don't know how the website picks up where to link the doc page for a
> given version.  I see from e0b82fc8e8 that the PACKAGE_VERSION was
> changed from 16devel to 16beta1. Does the website have something that
> extracts "devel" from the former and "16" from the latter?  I see the
> release announcement for 16beta1 had /16/ links per [1].  So, I guess
> it works. I just don't know how.

The tl;dr is that the /17/ links will be available on release day. I've 
validated the current links using the /devel/ heading.

Jonathan