Re: First draft of Beta announcement

On 5/10/17 20:01, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks:
>
> Read it here:
>
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=press.git;a=blob;f=releases/10/beta/10beta1.md;h=f0d2e6ad2637281194ce212f9b7553eff1301c58;hb=HEAD
>
> Please comment with improvements/suggestions/corrections, or submit them
> to the git repo if you have access.

I think the part about "an unusually high number of
backwards-incompatible changes" is unnecessarily scary. The number of
incompatible changes in the release notes is only slightly higher than
in previous releases (10: 19, 9.6: 13, 9.5: 12, 9.4: 22), and half of
those are removing ancient junk that no one was using.

I get that we want people to test and adjust their applications as early
as possible, but how about something like this instead: "Version 10
contains a few changes that are incompatible with prior major releases.
We encourage all users test it against their applications and platforms
as soon as possible."

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