Re: Time to start the PR machine

On 8/29/05, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:05 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Well, folks, it's that time of year again! That time when we spend a few
> > weeks arguing over phrasing in the PostgreSQL Release.
>
> I'd like to suggest doing 2 press releases:
>
> 1. Wide press release showing the coverity results, and saying that 8.1
> has just entered beta. Soon.
>
> 2. Release notice later in the year.
>
> My experience last year was that the press are interested more in News
> or an angle (i.e. #1) and not very interested in software releases (i.e.
> #2). I think we *have* to do #2, however...

It seems to me its a good idea. Such "we've entered beta and we'll bring you
all those goodies soon"
message is something which most news services would take without a blink.

Software release somewhat calls for careful evaluation -- like, provide an
article with some tests,
look&feel evaluations, etc. ;)

And making "we're doing beta" release sort of prepares ground for such a
test. Some of these
news sources will think: "a lot of goodies there, hmm, maybe we should make
our own article
about it when they release 8.1"?

Regards,
Dawid