Re: 8.4 release draft: a new tack

Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> I had an interesting conversation about the release draft with a
> professional PR person.  What he said, in a nutshell, was that is was
> extremely boring (although he used stronger language than that).
>
> And, reading it afresh this morning, I have to agree.
>
> What I'm hearing about from users is that each one has their own
> favorite feature (out of the 293 in the release) which will make their
> life vastly easier.   The cited favorite features are extremely diverse,
> ranging from column permissions to the SSL cleanup to partial GIN
> matches to CIText to \df.
>
> I'm wondering if that should be the "story" of our release. "PostgreSQL:
> easier to manage than ever before."  It would give some badly-needed
> structure to the release.


Another data point - the Drupal release announcement:

http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0

-selena