Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jan Wieck wrote:

> We have removed and are still in the process of removing more details
> form the server project to gborg and pgfoundry. If that strategy is
> extended to not talking about demanded features and functionality in our
> press releases at all, I have to seriously rethink my position about
> what should be included in our release and what not.

The thing is, those should be *seperate* announces ... if you put it as
part of a PostgreSQL 'the Server' announce, then you are going to either
have to make it so prominent as to shift focus away from what we are
announcing ... *or* ... make it so small so that nobody notices it anyway
...

Slony-I, IMHO, *is* a big thing, and I'm not disputing that in any way ...
but a *strong* PR should be made and broadcast out about it, not something
hidden away in a PR for another products release ...

My *biggest* beef is that focus is/will be shifted away from that which we
are announcing, and that is PostgreSQL RDBM 8.0.0 ...

PostgreSQL 8.0.0 is at least 2 months away from release ... why doesn't
the advocacy group focus the next few weeks on making a big Slony splash?
"The First Community Developed Replication Solution for PostgreSQL"?  God,
it might even do us good to have more regular "largish" press releases
throughout the year, then trying to get it all into one ...

Personally, looking at Josh's original on this thread, for 'layout', each
one of those parts could just as equally be fleshed out as a press release
for Slony ...

You argue that its a much demanded feature ... and I tend to agree ... but
by including it as part of the 'RDBMS" release, ppl are going to either
gloss over it because its not too prominent, or have their focus shifted
away from the big stuff in 8.0.0 (NT, PITR, native Win32) because its too
prominent ...


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