On 18 June 2010 20:20, Chris Browne
<cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
josh@agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) writes:
> Here's the beginning of drafting the release announcement. Note that
> the lists of features will change after I get the results of the
> survey, but I didn't have in mind to change the basic format.
>
>
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/90ReleaseDraft >
> In general, I don't feel a need for a lot of hyperbole. I think the
> huge number of major features speak for themselves. So I'd rather
> focus on features and quotes.
>
> Feedback by the marketing geeks (Rob, Sean?) especially wanted.
I did a little bit of rewording, and added in (for convenience),
linkage to the release notes. (It's handy for anyone reading the
announcement!)
I don't see any features that are in the release notes that seem like
they strongly need to be added. The ones that seem plausible, but
just a bit too marginal for the announcement, to me:
- deferrable unique constraints
- VACUUM FULL improvements
- binary upgrade
--
A few proposals
"The PostgreSQL Global Development Team is proud to announce the release of version 9.0. "
Maybe "PostgreSQL 9.0" instead of "version 9.0"?
Anonymous functions instead of anonymous blocks? Else put the word "code" before blocks.
Instead of "driving PostgreSQL's competition" use a synonym for "driving" as it sounds weird after just mentioning "drive" in the previous sentence.... or change the one in the previous sentence... I dunno.
As for the "blah blah blah" bits... look good to me ;)
Thom
