Re: Crediting sponsors in release notes?

bruce wrote:
> I am sure I could collect the information.  The big question for me is
> whether we _want_ such information in the release notes.  The release
> notes, for me, is for people to read about the release changes, and give
> a small amount of credit to the author, and indicate who is mostly
> responsible for the features, in case it has problems.
>
> I think adding sponsors to the release notes is going to make the
> release notes look like a billboard, and I am not in favor of this.
>
> Obviously we don't even care to update the web site about sponsorships,
> so why put in everyone's face in the release notes when we don't even do
> the minimal of updating our own web site with this information.
>
> I agree press releases are the natural place for this and I support more
> activity in that area.

Let me add that I often mention the company sponsoring a features when I
do a press interview or talk about a feature at a conference, if I know
who the sponsor is.  It would be good to at least have a wiki page where
we could list the sponsors so people who publicize features would know.

I know I mentioned NEC as the sponsor of our SE-Linux integration during
my InformationWeek interview with Josh Berkus.  The article mentions
KaiGai Kohei, but not NEC:

    http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/database/229402894?pgno=2

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