[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Drop comments from extension build, and drop requirement of docbook for regress testing - PASSED

[Regina Obe]

> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 08:11:59AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > +1 to removing comments as an extension dep. I don’t honestly think they get
> much use, too-cute-by-half.
> 
> +1 to removing comments as extension dep. Scripts work great for that,
> and we could even build localized comments !
> 
> --strk;
> 
> > > On Sep 14, 2023, at 2:07 AM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> > >
> > > We have a build and regress requirement of Docbook for basic
> > > regression testing.
> > > This became painfully obvious to me with the upgrade to docbook5
> > > when all our bots broke, and my system I can no longer regress test.
> > >
> > > The main dependency sadly is because of the help comments included
> > > in the extension builds. These bring in a docbook and xsltproc dependency.
> > >
> > > I'd like to drop comments from the extension builds with the
> > > intention of also not requiring docbook anything to regression test.
> > >
> > > 1) The comments can be still be generated by Debbie and packaged in
> > > tarball for those who want to use them and also available on the
> > > website as loose sql files for easy install.
> > > 2) We can maybe have a test that tries to install comments (just for
> > > those bots who have docbook), so that we can still catch those
> > > issues with people misdocumenting new features.
> > > 3) The garden tests will still require docbook, so those bots we
> > > have running those will still require docbook.
> > >
> > > Other bots I expect should not need docbook at all to test.
> > >
> > > +1

I proclaim this PASSED with 3 +1s and no minuses

Regina  +1
Paul +1
Sandro +1


Thanks all,
Regina