Re: New News Entry

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> >> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >>>> I'd extend 2 to include major version releases ...
> >>>
> >>> I wouldn't.  Keep in mind that this includes a lot of commercial software.
> >>> EMS Hitech, for example, seems to have a "major version release" every week.
> >
> >> Use discretion?
> >
> > I think Josh is trying to minimize the amount of discretion needed,
> > so that whoever makes these calls can't be accused of favoritism.
> >
> > Personally I think it's reasonable to have some guidelines, not
> > hard rules.  In this case maybe we could suggest a time constraint:
> > "major release" announcements are ok if they're at least a year apart.
> > (Or six months, or whatever we feel is appropriate.)
>
> I think EMS Hitech is an extreme case ... but, if I recall right, weren't
> they doing an announce per minor release?  ie. 1.1.1 v 1.1.2?
>
> But, I do agree about the time constraints ... maybe throw in a 'past
> track record' also?  for instance, we release 7.5.0, and it will generally
> be ~1 month before 7.5.1 comes out, but it may be 3 before 7.5.2 does ...
> in our case, we might have a short time between minors right after a major
> release, but we also don't send out a minor release just cause we happen
> to have backpatched a single feature ...

Just have Jan scratch his butt right before we release, and we can
piggyback on that announcement.  :-)

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