Re: news ticker Services Policy -- time for a change?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: news ticker Services Policy -- time for a change?
Date: 2013-07-03 21:44:05
Message-ID: 51D49B25.7070401@agliodbs.com
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On 07/02/2013 07:47 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 10:06 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> There's a point to that, but flipping the coin it's also pretty bad
>> that we don't provide any way to get email notifications of new
>> releases without also receiving advertisements for third party
>> commercial products.
>
> Right, and we also don't have a commercial-free RSS feed about release
> announcements. It's really quite terrible.
>
> I suspect one side-effect would be that if we do create more limited
> release announcement channels (email and/or RSS), no one will subscribe
> to the advertisements anymore.

True, but ultimately, isn't it more important to get the word out about
releases and security updates than to provide an advertising channel?

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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