Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0
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Msg-id 200408121934.i7CJYMm10136@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Time to work on Press Release 8.0  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> Also, the PR should be focused around what we are releasing, not side
> >> projects ... Slony-I isn't part of this release, and, IMHO, isn't
> >> appropriate as part of the PostgreSQL Server press release ... they should
> >> be doing their own Press Release for that.  Focus on what *we* are
> >> releasing, not what another project is releasing ...
> >
> > But we need to share our visibility with relivant child projects.
>
> But this comes back to promoting some projects as being more important
> then others, bestoying(sp?) a pseudo-official status on them ...
> pginstaller, IMHO, makes sense since its pretty much a requirement for
> anyone wishing to use Pg 8.0.0 on Windows ...
>
> If replication for PostgreSQL was something newly available, then not a
> big deal, but it isn't even something that is new, nor has been for over a
> year now ...

We have to promote some projects over others as they merit promotion or
nothing gets promoted.  I don't see a problem with that.

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