Robert Treat wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:03:31 Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Robert,
> >
> > > That was my bad. For some reason I thought we had an exception for
> > > products that are introducing PostgreSQL support into thier products. I
> > > guess that isn't the case?
> >
> > Yeah, but not betas. Look at it this way; if we're only allowing them one
> > announcement per 6 months, then their final release will get no
> > announcement.
>
> Well, this assumes the final release is within 6 months of the beta
> announcement, which is probably true, though GMail is still in beta. I guess
> assuming a priori knowledge of the product release cycle should be done in
> favor of increasing the beta pool to help ensure solid support upon release.
Actually this makes a lot of sense. Surely we'd like top-notch Postgres
support on proprietary products, right? What about changing the policy
to admit one beta announcement and one final release, even if they are
closer than 6 months apart?
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
