Re: New News Entry

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Folks,
>
> My personal opinion on policy:
>
> For software (or hardware) which is not PostgreSQL community, but is "useful"
> or "newsy" as we define it, we announce it when it either
> 1) goes production for the first time,
> 2) supports postgresql for the first time
> and never post news about that particular piece of software again unless
> there's a compelling reason to make an exception.

I'd extend 2 to include major version releases ...

> For software which is PostgreSQL community, we allow announcements when it:
> 1) is created as a project;
> 2) first goes beta (if it needs testers);
> 3) first goes production;
> 4) achieves a major (e.g. 2.0) version milestone

Sounds reasonable to me ...

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