release date

Bruce Momjian writes:

I have modified release.sgml to have titles that include the release
date, so it shows as:

Release 7.0 (2000-10-12)

Is that OK? There never seemed to be a good place to put the release
date.

<chapter>
<title>Release 7.0</title>

<note>
<title>Release date<title>
<simpara>2000-10-12</simpara>
</note>

<para>
... the rest ...

--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:

<chapter>
<title>Release 7.0</title>

<note>
<title>Release date<title>
<simpara>2000-10-12</simpara>
</note>

I kinda like having it in the title, actually, because that way the
table-of-contents will show the release date history all on one page.
I frequently find myself trying to guess which release cycle a given
past date was in --- and AFAIK we have no handy reference anywhere.
The top of
http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/release.htm
will become such a reference with Bruce's change.

regards, tom lane

<chapter>
<title>Release 7.0</title>
<note>
<title>Release date<title>
<simpara>2000-10-12</simpara>
</note>

I kinda like having it in the title, actually, because that way the
table-of-contents will show the release date history all on one page.
I frequently find myself trying to guess which release cycle a given
past date was in --- and AFAIK we have no handy reference anywhere.

Hmmph. I'd have guessed that memorizing seven dates would be the least
challenging thing you've accomplished in quite some time ;)

Anyway, I'll point out that we should try for appropriate markup
(whatever that is, but imho probably without dates in chapter titles),
and let Peter's upcoming style sheets solve any requirements for output
arrangement.

Embedding dates in the titles is a short-cut to having a table of
release dates, which we should put somewhere in front of the release
notes chapters...

- Thomas

Bruce Momjian writes:

I have modified release.sgml to have titles that include the release
date, so it shows as:

Release 7.0 (2000-10-12)

Is that OK? There never seemed to be a good place to put the release
date.

<chapter>
<title>Release 7.0</title>

<note>
<title>Release date<title>
<simpara>2000-10-12</simpara>
</note>

<para>
... the rest ...

Done. New code:

<title>Release 7.0.3</title>

<note>
<title>Release date<title>
<simpara>2000-11-11</simpara>
</note>

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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

Hmmph. I'd have guessed that memorizing seven dates would be the least
challenging thing you've accomplished in quite some time ;)

There are more than seven if you count the dot-releases ;-). But sure,
if you want to extract the info into a table, do that instead.

regards, tom lane

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

Hmmph. I'd have guessed that memorizing seven dates would be the least
challenging thing you've accomplished in quite some time ;)

There are more than seven if you count the dot-releases ;-). But sure,
if you want to extract the info into a table, do that instead.

You know, it may be cool to put it in a pg_ table.

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  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us
  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 853-3000
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026