Re: Help me improve the 9.1 release draft

I made a few initial edits to the 9.1 press release which can be seen here:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/91releasedraft

As mentioned by Josh, one of my goals is to explain how the features can
benefit users so that:

(a) existing users needing and waiting for features will want to upgrade
(b) existing and new users may see new features they want to try out

I agree it would be nice to have a unifying theme as well so there is more
to do.

Please review and let me know what you think.

John

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Hmmm, I'd like to keep it down to categories because we don't want to
> > list all 9 features in a sentence. I also like the "more new features"
> > because I want to hammer it in to people that we're not sitting still
> > and letting the NoSQL guys to all the innovation. Let me try ....
> >
> > "This latest release contains more new features than any prior release
> > of PostgreSQL, enhancing scalability and security, as well as adding new
> > use cases for the database."
> >
> > Needs help, but can you see what I'm driving for?
>
> Yeah, and that is better than the original IMO. It would be nice to
> have that introduction neatly tie together all the new features with a
> single theme -- something more substantive than "enhancing scalability
> and security" -- but given that we're talking about 9 or so basically
> unrelated major features, that's kind of hard to do.
>
> Now, maybe the bullet points could do a bit better conveying the
> appeal/use-case/awesomeness of the features. I think some of John
> Wang's suggested changes downthread are along these lines.
>
> Josh
>
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