Re: Beta1 announcement: alpha1 draft

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> On 04/27/2016 08:48 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> On 04/26/2016 08:46 PM, Josh berkus wrote:
>>> On 04/26/2016 06:49 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>>>> I think the last version JD posted was much better.
>>>
>>> It was a much better description with *you* as the target audience, yes.
>>> However, you are not very representative of the majority of our users.
>>> My goal is to provide text which will make some sense to people who
>>> haven't paid any attention to PostgreSQL development since 9.5 was
>>> released.
>>>
>>
>> I have been thinking about this more and I think I have a middle ground.
>> We should include my wording or wording that is similar to mine but we
>> should also include a link to a single page that discusses the
>> "practitioner" version of those features. The page should be simple:
>
> That's the typical "what's new" page, which I'll be creating soon if
> someone doesn't beat me to it (please leave out the apostrophe to avoid
> mediawiki issues, though).
>
> However, we need to have the "why this matters" in the beta annoucement
> itself, for two reasons:
>
> 1. our beta announcements get some press coverage, so the press needs to
> be able to quote the new features;
>
> 2. we want DBAs who haven't upgraded since 9.2 to get excited enough
> about one or more features to test them.
>
> If anything, we should have the "pithy" items in the original
> announcement, and links to the technical details on a wiki page, not the
> other way around.
>
> I'm also going to revisit the idea of only including five features.
> Part of the idea of the beta annoucement is to get people to test our
> features, and sometimes the features which need the most testing aren't
> the banner-carrier ones. Do we have other features which really warrant
> extensive testing?

There's a rather brilliant list (rather well-worded, too, IMHO) at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Upcoming_features

I believe it was curated primarily by Thom Brown.

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Robert Haas
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