| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Beta1 announcement: alpha1 draft |
| Date: | 2016-04-28 04:06:32 |
| Message-ID: | 20160428040632.GA68827@alvherre.pgsql |
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Justin Clift wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2016, at 15:46, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:
> <snip>
> > You are conflating two concepts, building a community and making a Beta announcement. The first is a long term, wide spread project. The second is a point in time notification of an event. Dragging in data extraneous to that event only muddies what the notification is about.
>
> "only muddies" isn't true. The beta announcement also provides an opportunity
> to point out other Community projects. That's something that should be done
> as often as possible. :)
I think Robert said it best in
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoZVBmTnUT419mS3pV9hESJh78gibD_2tviaoGMWvOTwtg@mail.gmail.com
The risk of alienating other people who happens to have worked on
"competing" tools is very high.
I think the mere fact that this discussion is occuring should be
indicative of this being a bad idea. In short, -1 from me.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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