Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Nick Bastin wrote:

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > > man pages/sgml synchronization (dump out man pages as postscript?)
> > >
> > > I'll need the sgml docs to firm up two weeks before release (Sept 15?)
> > > to give time to generate hardcopy. The admin guide will be the last
> > > converted, and it has the release notes and installation procedure which
> > > need to be updated. Can we think about how to do the release notes and
> > > installation for this release? I would suggest having a short readme on
> > > how to install and read the docs, and have the detailed installation
> > > procedure in sgml->html/hardcopy.
> >
> > Yep.  Remember Marc's rule that you can't add features after beta
> > starts, but you can be fixing things.  That buys us a lot of time.
>
> Not to point out the obvious, but that's what beta traditionally *means*...
> 'feature complete'.

    Ya, we know that...:)  Bruce is trying make fun of me *sniffle*
*grin*  Once we go beta, I tend to be quite...anal(?) about adding
anything unless 100% absolutely necessary, so the idea is to sneak as many
new features as possible in before it goes beta, even if they are buggy,
cause then "the feature is there, just has a few bugs to fix" *grin*

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org