Changelog and 7.1.3 release

Bruce Momjian writes:

Can I ask why we are mentioning the changelog for the release and not
the list from the HISTORY file? Any why are we putting the changelog in
the tarball anyway? Seems that could easily go on a web site.

The point of these changelogs was to show the changes between beta and rc
versions, because those were not necessarily recorded in the HISTORY file.
However, putting these in the tarball is questionable (if you already
downloaded the tarball then you might as well proceed with installing it),
still having them there now is even more questionable (who cares?), and
making them for minor releases is redundant and confusing. I vote for
removing them.

First prize for Consistency in Naming, btw.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

Can we come to some kind of decision on this before going beta?

Bruce Momjian writes:

Can I ask why we are mentioning the changelog for the release and not
the list from the HISTORY file? Any why are we putting the changelog in
the tarball anyway? Seems that could easily go on a web site.

The point of these changelogs was to show the changes between beta and rc
versions, because those were not necessarily recorded in the HISTORY file.
However, putting these in the tarball is questionable (if you already
downloaded the tarball then you might as well proceed with installing it),
still having them there now is even more questionable (who cares?), and
making them for minor releases is redundant and confusing. I vote for
removing them.

First prize for Consistency in Naming, btw.

--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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Can we come to some kind of decision on this before going beta?

The point of these changelogs was to show the changes between beta and rc
versions, because those were not necessarily recorded in the HISTORY file.
However, putting these in the tarball is questionable (if you already
downloaded the tarball then you might as well proceed with installing it),
still having them there now is even more questionable (who cares?), and
making them for minor releases is redundant and confusing. I vote for
removing them.

I agree with Peter on this; I don't see much value in putting these
files into the distribution, and none at all in preserving them
indefinitely.

I'd suggest that the future procedure ought to be to pull a changelog
from CVS but put it beside the tarball on the FTP server, not inside
the tarball (and certainly not back into CVS --- that's redundant).

regards, tom lane

I'd suggest that the future procedure ought to be to pull a changelog
from CVS but put it beside the tarball on the FTP server, not inside
the tarball (and certainly not back into CVS --- that's redundant).

When we commit the log files to CVS, don't we have to run cvs log again
and commit a new version, ad infinitum. :-)

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