On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:38:49PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:13:48PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > WWW Team,
> >
> > I'll be posting the patch release announcement to postgresql.org later today
> > or tommorrow AM. Please do *not* approve it until you see Marc send out the
> > e-mail version.
>
> I'd like to make a suggestion around this:
>
> Next time, how about we post it to the website *first*, and to -announce
> later? Reasons:
>
> 1) Gives the web changes a chance to propagate out to all the mirrors
> before people go looking for information.
>
> 2) The post on the web can be *changed and fixed* if typos are found when
> more ppl look them over (like the download link this time)
>
>
> We could then argue if the release announcement should be a duplicate of
> the content, or just a link to it. But even if it's a duplicate of the
> content, I think it makes a lot of sense to do it in that order.
>
> It also needs to be better coordinated with loading of the new versions of
> the documentation, something we completely forgot this time, but have
> remembered for some previous releases. When the -announce mail went up,
> the release notes weren't present on the website yet, but were referred to
> in the announcement...
>
>
> Thoughts & comments?
Does the complete absense of comments mean that we'll do this next time?
//Magnus
