Re: Need writer for May releases

> On 04 May 2017, at 08:23, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Daniel, Noah,
>
> * Noah Misch (noah(at)leadboat(dot)com) wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 10:26:26PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>>> On 29 Apr 2017, at 09:20, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We need someone to draft an announcement and web site updates for the
>>>> back-branch releases to be announced 2017-05-11. Final release notes become
>>>> available on 2017-05-08, so you'll need time on 2017-05-08 or 2017-05-09 to
>>>> finish the draft.
>>>
>>> I volnteer to take care of this one.
>>
>> Thanks; please do. How familiar are you with the process? I'm not very
>> familiar. Essentially, you read the release notes, extract a subset, and
>> assemble an announcement in the style of recent announcements. I don't know
>> anything about the process for posting the announcement to the web site and to
>> pgsql-announce(at)(dot) I suspect others on this list can answer any questions.
>
> I know at least enough about the process to, hopefully, be helpful if
> you have any questions regarding it.

Excellent, thanks! I re-read the thread about a previous release announcement
(started at 9462a047-20ef-da15-1d93-dc9197b28119(at)agliodbs(dot)com) and the wiki
page https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/UpdateReleaseDrafting which was helpful.

> I'll pull the info from redmine too and pass that on to Daniel, so he
> understands the general process and timeline.

Thanks!

cheers ./daniel