Thread: 7.3.3 prep
Folks,
Do we need to do anything for 7.3.3 other than put a news blurb up on the web
sites? Do we want to do a mailing to the OSS-friendly press? Or at least
post a NewsForge?
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On Saturday 17 May 2003 04:53, Josh Berkus wrote: > Folks, > > Do we need to do anything for 7.3.3 other than put a news blurb up on the > web sites? Do we want to do a mailing to the OSS-friendly press? Or at > least post a NewsForge? Do we have a documented procedure for making a release? Two at that, one for incremental point release like 7.3.3 and major ones like 7.4 I would suggest following places to post. 1) Newforge 2) freshmeat 3) linuxtoday 4) /. (Oops..:-)) And we need a feature round up prepapred. Can we document this someplace so that we won't go on hunting on this again? Shridhar
On 19 May 2003 at 9:34, Robert Treat wrote: > On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 04:13, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > On Saturday 17 May 2003 04:53, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > > > Do we need to do anything for 7.3.3 other than put a news blurb up on the > > > web sites? Do we want to do a mailing to the OSS-friendly press? Or at > > > least post a NewsForge? > > > > Do we have a documented procedure for making a release? Two at that, one for > > incremental point release like 7.3.3 and major ones like 7.4 > > > > There are a couple of places that the procedure for making a major point > release are kept, one is in the source, the other is either in one of > the guides or somewhere behind the advocacy site. If no one else can > find them I can dig up links when we need them. That said core has never > felt a need to make widespread public announcements outside of the > postgresql community for minor point releases, so unless that policy has > changed I believe the only things that will need to be done are a > posting to -hackers, -announce, and -general, a posting on www, and a > mention in the weekly news. Anyone who wishes to translate the posting > and post to a regional mailing list is free to do so. I have a question. Why not drum every point release as loud as we can? Does it hurt anyway? I mean let's do it.. Bye Shridhar -- It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted. -- Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5
On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 04:13, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Saturday 17 May 2003 04:53, Josh Berkus wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Do we need to do anything for 7.3.3 other than put a news blurb up on the > > web sites? Do we want to do a mailing to the OSS-friendly press? Or at > > least post a NewsForge? > > Do we have a documented procedure for making a release? Two at that, one for > incremental point release like 7.3.3 and major ones like 7.4 > There are a couple of places that the procedure for making a major point release are kept, one is in the source, the other is either in one of the guides or somewhere behind the advocacy site. If no one else can find them I can dig up links when we need them. That said core has never felt a need to make widespread public announcements outside of the postgresql community for minor point releases, so unless that policy has changed I believe the only things that will need to be done are a posting to -hackers, -announce, and -general, a posting on www, and a mention in the weekly news. Anyone who wishes to translate the posting and post to a regional mailing list is free to do so. Robert Treat
Shridhar, > I have a question. Why not drum every point release as loud as we can? Does it > hurt anyway? > > I mean let's do it.. Three reasons: a) 7.3.3 is basically a bug-fix release, which is not "sexy" in the general media; we have no new features to report, and no news about 7.4. b) Our web sites are unstable right now and we are ill-prepared to do any kind of PR work on the release c) the big news about 7.3.3 is that there are several bugs in the 7.3.x series that are not, and will not, be fixed in the 7.3.x series. This is not the sort of thing we want to trumpet. That being said, I think we should begin prep for the 7.4 release cycle *now*, as we missed the 7.3 deadline last time. As soon as Robert and Marc have fixed the web site, that is <grin>. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco