On Saturday 14 June 2003 12:06 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> > Getting the Linux, FreeBSD, and other geek news sites their press release
> > is just as important, but, that's a different audience who needs a
> > different press release. ZDNet and its ilk could get the mainstream
> > release, with only a link to the homepage. The geek news gets a meatier
> > press release, with links to the home page, downloads, and release notes.
> > And Hackers gets the release notes. One size does not fit all.
>
> ISTM Lamar's struck the nail pretty square on the head here. We have
> several easily-identifiable audiences for release announcements. We
> have to provide each audience with the material they want.
>
The current plan for the next major release is to write up a general press
release to be distributed to -announce and to the list o' press contacts.
It'll also go up on the various websites. However it *won't* be sent to the
-hackers list. This worked well the last time (save the hackers part) and I
don't think anyone has brought up a reason to change it.
> I believe the current core team ("technical core" if you like that
> phrase) understands what sort of info the pgsql-hackers audience wants.
> I'm very happy to defer to someone else's judgement on how to present
> the same info to non-hacker audiences.
>
> Seems like the next problem is to figure out exactly who gets the last
> say in those decisions. I made a lot of sweeping statements yesterday
> about earning one's respect by track record ... but I'm not sure what
> we do in the short run before anyone's established track records ...
>
we can sort that one out with whoever shows up on -advocacy.
Robert Treat
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