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7.3.3 prep

От
Josh Berkus
Дата:
Folks,

Do we need to do anything for 7.3.3 other than put a news blurb up on the web
sites?   Do we want to do a mailing to the OSS-friendly press?  Or at least
post a NewsForge?

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Re: 7.3.3 prep

От
Shridhar Daithankar
Дата:
On Saturday 17 May 2003 04:53, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Do we need to do anything for 7.3.3 other than put a news blurb up on the
> web sites?   Do we want to do a mailing to the OSS-friendly press?  Or at
> least post a NewsForge?

Do we have a documented procedure for making a release? Two at that, one for
incremental point release like 7.3.3 and major ones like 7.4

I would suggest following places to post.

1) Newforge
2) freshmeat
3) linuxtoday
4) /. (Oops..:-))

And we need a feature round up prepapred.

 Can we document this someplace so that we won't go on hunting on this again?

 Shridhar


Re: 7.3.3 prep

От
"Shridhar Daithankar"
Дата:
On 19 May 2003 at 9:34, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 04:13, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 May 2003 04:53, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > Do we need to do anything for 7.3.3 other than put a news blurb up on the
> > > web sites?   Do we want to do a mailing to the OSS-friendly press?  Or at
> > > least post a NewsForge?
> >
> > Do we have a documented procedure for making a release? Two at that, one for
> > incremental point release like 7.3.3 and major ones like 7.4
> >
>
> There are a couple of places that the procedure for making a major point
> release are kept, one is in the source, the other is either in one of
> the guides or somewhere behind the advocacy site. If no one else can
> find them I can dig up links when we need them. That said core has never
> felt a need to make widespread public announcements outside of the
> postgresql community for minor point releases, so unless that policy has
> changed I believe the only things that will need to be done are a
> posting to -hackers, -announce, and -general, a posting on www, and a
> mention in the weekly news. Anyone who wishes to translate the posting
> and post to a regional mailing list is free to do so.

I have a question. Why not drum every point release as loud as we can? Does it
hurt anyway?

I mean let's do it..

Bye
 Shridhar

--
It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted.        -- Yarnek of
Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5


Re: 7.3.3 prep

От
Robert Treat
Дата:
On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 04:13, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On Saturday 17 May 2003 04:53, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Do we need to do anything for 7.3.3 other than put a news blurb up on the
> > web sites?   Do we want to do a mailing to the OSS-friendly press?  Or at
> > least post a NewsForge?
>
> Do we have a documented procedure for making a release? Two at that, one for
> incremental point release like 7.3.3 and major ones like 7.4
>

There are a couple of places that the procedure for making a major point
release are kept, one is in the source, the other is either in one of
the guides or somewhere behind the advocacy site. If no one else can
find them I can dig up links when we need them. That said core has never
felt a need to make widespread public announcements outside of the
postgresql community for minor point releases, so unless that policy has
changed I believe the only things that will need to be done are a
posting to -hackers, -announce, and -general, a posting on www, and a
mention in the weekly news. Anyone who wishes to translate the posting
and post to a regional mailing list is free to do so.

Robert Treat



Re: 7.3.3 prep

От
Josh Berkus
Дата:
Shridhar,

> I have a question. Why not drum every point release as loud as we can? Does
it
> hurt anyway?
>
> I mean let's do it..

Three reasons:
a) 7.3.3 is basically a bug-fix release, which is not "sexy" in the general
media; we have no new features to report, and no news about 7.4.
b) Our web sites are unstable right now and we are ill-prepared to do any kind
of PR work on the release
c) the big news about 7.3.3 is that there are several bugs in the 7.3.x series
that are not, and will not, be fixed in the 7.3.x series.  This is not the
sort of thing we want to trumpet.

That being said, I think we should begin prep for the 7.4 release cycle *now*,
as we missed the 7.3 deadline last time.

As soon as Robert and Marc have fixed the web site, that is <grin>.

--
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco