Обсуждение: Bad news approval
WWW Team, DreamCoder for PostgreSQL version 2 beta released This news item should not have been approved; it's a beta release of a commercial product. Our policy says we only approve major releases and beginning of PG support for commercial products, and not more often than once every 6 months. Just trying to fine-tune this by getting everyone on the same approval policy. --Josh
On Sunday 15 March 2009 17:21:29 Josh Berkus wrote: > WWW Team, > > DreamCoder for PostgreSQL version 2 beta released > > This news item should not have been approved; it's a beta release of a > commercial product. Our policy says we only approve major releases and > beginning of PG support for commercial products, and not more often than > once every 6 months. > > Just trying to fine-tune this by getting everyone on the same approval > policy. > That was my bad. For some reason I thought we had an exception for products that are introducing PostgreSQL support into thier products. I guess that isn't the case? -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 00:29 -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > On Sunday 15 March 2009 17:21:29 Josh Berkus wrote: > > WWW Team, > > > > DreamCoder for PostgreSQL version 2 beta released > > > > This news item should not have been approved; it's a beta release of a > > commercial product. Our policy says we only approve major releases and > > beginning of PG support for commercial products, and not more often than > > once every 6 months. > > > > Just trying to fine-tune this by getting everyone on the same approval > > policy. > > > > That was my bad. For some reason I thought we had an exception for products > that are introducing PostgreSQL support into thier products. I guess that > isn't the case? http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NewsEventsApproval Joshua D. Drake > > -- > Robert Treat > Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net > Consulting: http://www.omniti.com > -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997
Robert, > That was my bad. For some reason I thought we had an exception for products > that are introducing PostgreSQL support into thier products. I guess that > isn't the case? Yeah, but not betas. Look at it this way; if we're only allowing them one announcement per 6 months, then their final release will get no announcement. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL San Francisco
On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:03:31 Josh Berkus wrote: > Robert, > > > That was my bad. For some reason I thought we had an exception for > > products that are introducing PostgreSQL support into thier products. I > > guess that isn't the case? > > Yeah, but not betas. Look at it this way; if we're only allowing them one > announcement per 6 months, then their final release will get no > announcement. Well, this assumes the final release is within 6 months of the beta announcement, which is probably true, though GMail is still in beta. I guess assuming a priori knowledge of the product release cycle should be done in favor of increasing the beta pool to help ensure solid support upon release. Thanks for the clarification. :-) -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com
Robert Treat wrote: > On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:03:31 Josh Berkus wrote: > > Robert, > > > > > That was my bad. For some reason I thought we had an exception for > > > products that are introducing PostgreSQL support into thier products. I > > > guess that isn't the case? > > > > Yeah, but not betas. Look at it this way; if we're only allowing them one > > announcement per 6 months, then their final release will get no > > announcement. > > Well, this assumes the final release is within 6 months of the beta > announcement, which is probably true, though GMail is still in beta. I guess > assuming a priori knowledge of the product release cycle should be done in > favor of increasing the beta pool to help ensure solid support upon release. Actually this makes a lot of sense. Surely we'd like top-notch Postgres support on proprietary products, right? What about changing the policy to admit one beta announcement and one final release, even if they are closer than 6 months apart? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.