Re: volunteer to draft next update release

> On Oct 19, 2016, at 11:13 AM, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 19, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Umair Shahid <umair(dot)shahid(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:umair(dot)shahid(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org <mailto:jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>> wrote:
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>> > On Oct 18, 2016, at 6:35 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com <mailto:josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>> wrote:
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>> > On 10/18/2016 02:50 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
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>> >>> Oh, also: 9.1 is EOL as of this release.
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>> >>> There are several big fixes in this release, including a data-corruption
>> >>> one for 9.6.
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>> >> Sounds like it will be a fun writeup. Looking forward to getting the
>> >> specific feature list.
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>> > Well, whoever is going to be doing this should be going out on hackers
>> > now and figuring out what the big fixes are. That's frankly most of the
>> > work -- well, that and the list of minor fixes, which will come on its
>> > own on Monday.
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>> Per Tom on the -hackers thread, he advised waiting for the release notes. Heikki identified the two major things.
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>> Would you recommended drafting the notes in the wiki or in the “press” repo or put it in a thread?
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>> FYI, I have added a template named update_201610.md <http://update_201610.md/> under the /update_releases/current in the press repo.
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> Found this. I am going to start filling in details. Do I have push writes to the repo?

Answer is yes.

Because this is my first time doing this, I want to work on it early and often to get into the proper cadence :-) I took a try at writing up the data corruption issue as well as adding the EOL language:

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=press.git;a=commitdiff;h=38aadd18e9c64f30423f81920381b001fff8b4c5;hp=1ada1db63eaed94e499c1289e90bdf70a47f9fc0 <https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=press.git;a=commitdiff;h=38aadd18e9c64f30423f81920381b001fff8b4c5;hp=1ada1db63eaed94e499c1289e90bdf70a47f9fc0>

I understand part of the challenge is taking the detailed commit notes and putting it into language that makes sense to the users, which is why I want more eyes on this. I intend to fill out more details once the rest of the release notes are out, but if there are major issues I find it prudent that we get the language for that correct so users understand the ramifications and the need to upgrade.

Thanks!

Jonathan