Re: Beta1 announcement: alpha1 draft

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On 04/26/2016 06:44 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> You removed the kudos to other upcoming stuff that is outside of core. I
>>> think that is a mistake. We are an inclusive community. Including tips to
>>> users about awesome stuff that uses PostgreSQL is a good thing. A press
>>> release that pushes our inclusiveness as a point, is a very good thing.
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure about that.  I think that other products can make their
>> own announcements on pgsql-announce; our beta announcement should be
>> just that.
>
>
> If it is a product, yes but I do believe (within conservative reason) that
> highlighting upcoming stuff shows we collaborate. Granted it should never be
> "the reason" for the announcement but a little enthusiastic collaboration on
> cool Pg utilities? Heck yeah :)
>
> Logical decoding for users, is useless without PgLogical (right now). Why
> wouldn't we mention it?
>
> PgAdmin is *the default* GUI admin tool and version 4 is a major milestone,
> why wouldn't we mention it?
>
> PgBackrest is *the* most talked about backup utility we have, why wouldn't
> we help invigorate that community?

I am not opposed to promoting those things; I just don't think it
belongs in the beta announcement.

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Robert Haas
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