Re: 9.5 Release press coverage - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

> The wording itself wasn't very good, with the way the "announced" verb was
> used. We certainly can't prevent them from doing that, but we should forward
> that feedback and ask that they be more careful about that wording the next
> time.

I'd really like to understand what wording would be found acceptable
to the community.  I think it's natural for a press release put out by
a company to begin with the name of that company.  The press release
says in the first sentence that the release was made by the PostgreSQL
community.

To be honest, I'd be sort of surprised if 2ndQuadrant ever put out ANY
public statement that made as much mention an EnterpriseDB-developed
feature as that press release made of BRIN. 

In that sense, I thought
that press release was remarkably fair.  If somebody had asked me
about that press release before it had been put out, I would have
recommended against sending it to pgsql-announce, but I would have had
no concerns about using it anywhere else.  I still don't really
understand what the problem is.  Can you be more specific?

If the community's position is that the only acceptable thing for
EnterpriseDB to promote is the community press release that doesn't
mention EnterpriseDB or any EnterpriseDB staff or any
EnterpriseDB-contributed feature, and that it must promote that only
without using the word EnterpriseDB, I think that's, well, I guess I
think that's ridiculous.  It's reasonable to expect that EnterpriseDB
won't say that we are the one company behind PostgreSQL, and the ONE
article that said that has now been quite thoroughly corrected.  It's
not reasonable to say that EnterpriseDB won't talk about EnterpriseDB.
I fully expect other people to talk about their own companies.

Generally, I'd say that EnterpriseDB generates a regular stream of
press releases, and the community doesn't get veto power over those.
The community, of course, has every right to decide which of those
announcements it will promote using its own channels (pgsql-announce,
for example).  But it has no right to control EDB's access to the
media. 

If EnterpriseDB is making false statements, then it is
entirely right for people to be upset about that, but our press
release does not do that.  I have read that press release several
times from top to bottom and I do not see a single statement in there
that is false or claims credit for anybody else's work.  Period.