Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:13:55 -0400 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> > Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 09:36 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > >
> > > > there has been a -core decision that the name of our product is
> > > > PostgreSQL. Based on this, I think it's appropriate for the weekly
> > > > news that is posted on the projects main webssite to be named
> > > > PostgreSQL Weekly News.
> > >
> > > +1 on that. Even though it is David's project for now, we need to be
> > > consistent about the name on the public side.
> >
> > AFAIK Postgres is an official alias, so I don't see the point. Besides,
> > the -core decision said AFAIR that we would stick to the name PostgreSQL
> > *for now*, with an eye to an eventual switch to Postgres as we went
> > making the latter name better known (i.e. using it).
>
> But even if "Postgres" is an official alias, we don't need to use two
> different names on our websites and our (semi-)official newsletters.
Even though I don't agree with this argument, I don't see why everyone
else is so keen on forcing David a policy on how to name the newsletter.
No one forces Devrim on the policy of the planet, for example; even
though some of us disagree with it.
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