Re: First Draft of 8.2 Release

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Shane Ambler <pgsql(at)007Marketing(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Mailing lists <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: First Draft of 8.2 Release
Date: 2006-08-31 15:48:51
Message-ID: 20060831154851.GF7270@fetter.org
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:55:59AM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote:
> On 31/8/2006 4:56, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >>> Frankly there are several projects on pgFoundry that need some advocacy
> >>> on this release including:
> >>>
> >>> Full Disjunctions
> >>> .Npgsql (if it hits 1.0)
> >>> Orafce
> >>>
> >>> Possibly some reiteration around:
> >>>
> >>> pljava
> >>> pgpool
> >>
> >> Agreed, but we better mention it is on pgfoundry rather than in the main
> >> code.
> >
> > Hmmm... agreed.. something like:
> >
> > With the continued success of our community project site
> > www.pgfoundry.org we also have the following sub projects available for
> > 8.2...
> >
>
> I'd expand that to -
>
> With the continued success of our community project site
> www.pgfoundry.org we also have the following projects developing
> additional add-on features to offer expanded functionality to what
> is included in the main PostgreSQL release. These features may be
> too cutting edge to be considered part of the main project or may
> just cater to a small market.

Nice expansion :)

I'd cut that last sentence, as it emphasizes a gap between the core
and pgfoundry that it's our long-term goal to close.

Cheers,
D
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