Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> Getting the Linux, FreeBSD, and other geek news sites their press release is
> just as important, but, that's a different audience who needs a different
> press release. ZDNet and its ilk could get the mainstream release, with only
> a link to the homepage. The geek news gets a meatier press release, with
> links to the home page, downloads, and release notes. And Hackers gets the
> release notes. One size does not fit all.
ISTM Lamar's struck the nail pretty square on the head here. We have
several easily-identifiable audiences for release announcements. We
have to provide each audience with the material they want.
I believe the current core team ("technical core" if you like that
phrase) understands what sort of info the pgsql-hackers audience wants.
I'm very happy to defer to someone else's judgement on how to present
the same info to non-hacker audiences.
Seems like the next problem is to figure out exactly who gets the last
say in those decisions. I made a lot of sweeping statements yesterday
about earning one's respect by track record ... but I'm not sure what
we do in the short run before anyone's established track records ...
regards, tom lane
