Re: Beta1 announcement: alpha1 draft

On 04/27/2016 06:36 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 04/26/2016 08:42 PM, Josh berkus wrote:
>> On 04/26/2016 07:12 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>>> Logical decoding for users, is useless without PgLogical (right now).
>>> Why wouldn't we mention it?
>>
>> Because pglogical isn't expected to be ready by beta time.
>>
>>> PgAdmin is *the default* GUI admin tool and version 4 is a major
>>> milestone, why wouldn't we mention it?
>>
>> It should have its own announcement.
>>
>>> PgBackrest is *the* most talked about backup utility we have, why
>>> wouldn't we help invigorate that community?
>>
>> If it's having a major release, it should also have its own announcement.
>>
>
> How about, reasons why?
>
> I have provided reasons why I think we should do this, all that is
> provided above is disagreement without reason. That isn't useful.

The above supplies reasons why.

The other reason is that the beta draft, including a lot of stuff we
NEED to have in there, is already something like 2 pages long.  There's
a limit to how much we can expect people to read; a list of accessory
projects having releases at the bottom wouldn't get read.

If it weren't for length, I'd be all for having a list of projects which
are having a release to get ready for 9.6; we've done that several times
before, and that's useful for testing too.  "pgAdmin has been adjusted
to support X in the new release, please test".  I don't know that we
have anything like that, though, do we?

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Josh Berkus
Red Hat OSAS
(any opinions are my own)