Re: DRAFT 9.6 release -- is Final

On 09/13/2016 12:05 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 09/13/2016 08:39 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> On 09/13/2016 11:22 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> On 13 September 2016 at 12:55, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> Given the lack of additional feedback, we're going to call the current
>>>> press release final. Translation copies to be prepared by Thursday.
>>>
>>> What is the thing we are calling final?
>>>
>>> This looks still in progress... not just in name
>>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/96releasedraft
>>
>> If you have additional feedback/improvements on the release text, please
>> give them ASAP.
>
> some comments:
>
>
> 1. I changed all the urls to https because that is what we have for a
> while now...

Thank you.

>
> 2. the wiki page still has this:
>
> "QUOTE ABOUT SCALING OUT ON POSTGRES HERE "
>
> is this going to be filled?

Yes, wording is currently being negotiated.

>
> 3. "Phrase search means that PostgreSQL continues to be an alternative
> to dedicated text search technologies for web search and data mining"
> sound rather boring and not very nice to me - it basically reads as
> "yeah we can kinda do what others can do better"

Suggested replacement wording?

> 4. is it Btree or B-tree (we seem to use the later in the docs - and
> yeah I do see it is a quote)?

Wasn't sure, thanks. I can fix that in a quote.

> 5. 32X -> 32x?

I see 32X more frequently, but maybe we should go with "32 times" just
to be clear.

>
>
> In general the press release seems to be fairly rough to me and a bit of
> a strange mix between technical details/wording like "remote apply" and
> general marketing speak like "scale up and scale out"

That's our press releases in a nutshell. We are, after all, a project
and not a product.

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