Re: 9.2 schedule

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:54:19AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:33 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:44:20PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> >> At the developer meeting last week:
> >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgCon_2011_Developer_Meeting there
> >> was an initial schedule for 9.2 hammered out and dutifully
> >> transcribed at
> >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_9.2_Development_Plan ,
> >> and the one part I wasn't sure I had written down correctly I see
> >> Robert already fixed.
> >>
> >> There was a suggestion to add some publicity around the schedule for
> >> this release.
> >
> > Already started. :)
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/community/weeklynews/pwn20110522
> >
> >> There's useful PR value to making it more obvious to
> >> people that the main development plan is regular and time-based,
> >> even if the release date itself isn't fixed.  The right time to make
> >> an initial announcement like that is "soon", particularly if a goal
> >> here is to get more submitted into the first 9.2 CF coming in only a
> >> few weeks.  Anyone have changes to suggest before this starts
> >> working its way toward an announcement?
> >
> > I thought we'd agreed on the timing for the first CF, and that I was
> > to announce it in the PostgreSQL Weekly News, so I did just that.
>
> We talked about doing a separate -announce post just for this item,
> and there seemed to be some support for that. I'm OK with either way,
> though.

For what it's worth, I think there should also be a separate -announce
(and -general, and -hackers) post for the item. This is about getting
the message out early and broadly so people have the best chance of
getting it in time to act on it.

Cheers,
David.
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