Re: volunteer to draft next update release

> On Oct 18, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 10/18/2016 10:19 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> On 10/18/2016 10:15 AM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>> Hi Josh,
>>>> On Oct 17, 2016, at 5:28 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Josh, Jon, Umair:
>>>>
>>>> I have prepped this for you folks.
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/UpdateReleaseDrafting
>>>>
>>>> Also, I've added an archive of past update releases, as well as
>>>> templates for future releases, to the "press" repository on
>>>> git.postgresql.org. Let me know if any of you need permissions on that
>>>> repo.
>>>>
>>>> This release is a bugfix release with no security issues, which is why
>>>> it's a good one to start with.
>>>
>>> Thank you for putting this together, it is super helpful.
>
> I thought templates + documentation would be much better than talking
> just one person through it.
>
>>>
>>> Where is the starting point for compiling information about what is going into the release, i.e. the “1 to 2 weeks out” step in the guide?
>>
>> That's where we are now. Tarballs will be bundled on Monday.
>
> Oh, also: 9.1 is EOL as of this release.
>
> There are several big fixes in this release, including a data-corruption
> one for 9.6.

Sounds like it will be a fun writeup. Looking forward to getting the specific feature list.

Thanks,

Jonathan