Change in policy on News? - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Josh Berkus
Subject Change in policy on News?
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Msg-id 43C2A5C9.7030906@agliodbs.com
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Responses Re: Change in policy on News?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Folks,

When we last discussed "policy" for front-page news items, this was the
general terms:

1) Commercial Software gets 1 news item, ever, preferably when they
introduce PostgreSQL support.

2) OSS Projects supporting PG get an announcement every major version,
but NOT for minor releases.

3) "Inside" projects (like PGAdmin & PostGIS) get an news item whenever
they have something new.

Lately, someone has been approving every single announcement from AM
software, giving them a front-page news item every 2-3 weeks, frequently
for patch releases.   What gives?

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.444
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.433
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.453

--Josh

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