Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: RELNOTES - Better explanation of PostgreSQL upgrade https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185788 ------- Additional Comments From stickster(a)gmail.com 2006-03-17 20:16 EST ------- Just my $0.02, but the release notes are clear that to upgrade, you should visit the PostgreSQL site to get up-to-the-minute information on how to perform the upgrade. The admonition is merely there to remind people that you can't just install/upgrade FC5 and have everything work perfectly. If there are caveats to the process, we don't want to get in a position of having to replicate those in the release notes. At this point the release notes have been frozen for translation and the Web, but they will likely "unfreeze" after FC5 release. This is a candidate for inclusion at that point, although my personal opinion is that the notes are already explicit about directing users to the experts. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: RELNOTES - Better explanation of PostgreSQL upgrade https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185788 kwade(a)redhat.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED Resolution| |NOTABUG ------- Additional Comments From kwade(a)redhat.com 2006-03-23 15:30 EST ------- In reply to comment #2: Regardless, it relies upon application-specific methodology that was different in the past and could be different in the future. Your change makes the [Tip] go from a static piece of useful content directing users to the upstream documentation, to a piece of content that needs to be validity checked for every future release. Just like you checked the release notes going back to PostgreSQL 6.0, we would have to do the same each release to be sure the methodology was still fundamentally the same. Considering that we do not even have an accountable volunteer as lead writer for the database content, I'm very hesitant to add more human-requiring procedures. What I did instead was to bring the directions to go to the URL for upgrade instructions into the [Tip] admonition: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/DatabaseServers We already need to update that upgrade URL for (probably) each release, but it is a single change that gets us the benefit of _all_ of the upstream content on the subject without causing us to duplicate the content writing and publication efforts. Does that make sense? Right, anything that points at postgresql.org/docs is 100% "the expert". One is almost never wrong pointing at the upstream content as canonical and best. I'm closing this bug as NOTABUG because the original situation is not a defect in the document. However, I think bringing the URL into the admonition was a Good Thing. Thanks for reporting on the need to provide a stronger direction for users. I hope you understand why we do not want to recreate/reprint actual procedures/directions from canonical sources when a hyperlink can do all the work for us. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: RELNOTES - Better explanation of PostgreSQL upgrade https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185788 nsoranzo(a)tiscali.it changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|CLOSED |REOPENED Resolution|NOTABUG | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: RELNOTES - Better explanation of PostgreSQL upgrade https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185788 kwade(a)redhat.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |CLOSED Resolution| |RAWHIDE ------- Additional Comments From kwade(a)redhat.com 2007-02-06 13:57 EST ------- Not sure why we never incorporated the suggestion ... I did the sane thing, which is update the source on the Wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/DatabaseServers It can now be reviewed and have the URL updated for the next release. Thanks for the contribution. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.