From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: news ticker Services Policy -- time for a change? |
Date: | 2013-07-03 22:12:29 |
Message-ID: | 51D4A1CD.1060609@commandprompt.com |
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On 07/03/2013 02:44 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Yes. We are a community not a commercial product.
JD
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