Re: 2021-08-12 release announcement draft

On 12/08/21 11:25 am, David Rowley wrote:
> Thanks for drafting this up.
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 04:32, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>> Please ensure you have your feedback in no later than midnight today
>> (Aug 11) AoE[1].
> It might not be the exact technical feedback you had in mind, but I
> think the following could be improved:
>
> + This release marks the third beta release of PostgreSQL 14 and puts the
> + community one step closer to general availability this fall.
>
> I think the above wording is pretty good if your audience was entirely
> based in, or at least expected to be based in North America. The
> people from the South of India might have been under the impression
> that the release was shortly after the monsoon season ended. The
> people from the Nothern parts of Australia likely think it's around
> when the wet season starts. The people from temperate parts of the
> Southern hemisphere think it's in the Spring. The people in the UK
> think it's in Autumn.
>
> I'd really like to see us move away from using seasons as an indicator
> of when something is occurring when the audience is based all over the
> world.
>
> Maybe something like "one step closer to general availability around
> the start of the final quarter of 2021" would have more meaning to the
> rest of the world?
>
> David
>
>
Living in New Zealand, I'd definitely agreed with not using seasons as
they are hemispheric specific.

Does anybody, other than the Americans, use 'Fall'' for Autumn???