Re: 8.4 release draft in progress ...

From: Josh Williams <joshwilliams(at)ij(dot)net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.4 release draft in progress ...
Date: 2009-05-29 04:16:35
Message-ID: 1243570595.1102.12.camel@godzilla.local.scalefeather.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-advocacy pgsql-es-ayuda

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 15:13 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Josh,
>
> > Yes, but it's one of 50-or-so features which matter to existing
> > production Postgres DBAs, and not to people who haven't used it before.
> > We want to keep the features oriented towards people who aren't already
> > intimate with PostgreSQL; those will read the internal release and the
> > release notes.
>
> Mind you, what this *does* point out is that everyone has their favorite
> feature which is going to improve their lives ... and it's not
> necessarily the headliners.

Yep, good point; line removed. Have to remember this is effectively the
"executive summary" of the release. If it could leave some people
scratching their heads, less is probably more. As you said, brevity. :)

- Josh Williams

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-advocacy by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Magnus Hagander 2009-05-29 07:24:34 Re: Need help creating feature list
Previous Message Josh Berkus 2009-05-28 23:12:11 Re: Need help creating feature list

Browse pgsql-es-ayuda by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Silvio Quadri 2009-05-29 12:14:04 Fwd: SOT: Utilidades de PostgreSQL sin tener queinstalar PostgreSQL
Previous Message Luis Esteban de Dios Núñez 2009-05-29 04:01:33 Re: Rv: Crear tabla a partir de un archivo de texto