Re: [webmaster] announcements for individual betas

What about a little box on the website which tells us the currently available versions, something like

- Current Beta: 7.4.0 Beta 5
- Current Stable: 7.3.4
- Depraced Stable: 7.2.4

including download links (or links to release notes)? MySQL.com has something like this and I like this...

By the way, sorry I haven't been working on the new site very much the last weeks, was very busy...

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Andreas Grabmüller

----- Original-Nachricht -----
Von: "Robert Treat" <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
An: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
CC: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Datum: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 02:12 PM
Betreff: [pgsql-www] [webmaster] announcements for individual betas

> Yes, I think Dave and I both have been particularly swamped recently. If
> someone could write these up for the release candidates it would be very
> helpful.
>
> Robert Treat
>
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 17:30, Dave Page wrote:
> > Hi Neil,
> >
> > If someone wants to write such updates and notices, then I see no reason
> > why we should not include them. Unfortunately I am particularly busy at
> > the moment and just don't have time to do it myself (not that I write
> > the actual content very often anyway).
> >
> > Care to volunter some (more) of your time? :-)
> >
> > Regards, Dave.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc@samurai.com]
> > > Sent: 30 October 2003 00:32
> > > To: webmaster@postgresql.org
> > > Subject: [webmaster] announcements for individual betas
> > >
> > > At present, the front page of postgresql.org contains a
> > > single item announcing the 7.4 beta process. This news item
> > > is from a month ago, and is halfway down the page.
> > > Furthermore, it doesn't provide any information about the
> > > status of new beta releases (so that if you previously
> > > downloaded a beta release for testing, the only way to know
> > > about a new beta is to click on through to developer.postgresql.org).
> > > Since the frontpage includes individual beta announcements
> > > for such relatively inconsequential beta releases as "Trigger
> > > capable PL/Perl Beta 1", I think we could and should make the
> > > current status of the beta process more clear. I'd like to see:
> > >
> > >         (a) News items for each beta release, rather than
> > > just "the beta
> > >         process" in general
> > >
> > >         (b) The news item describing the latest beta release
> > > at or near
> > >         the top of the page.
> > >
> > > Since we want as many people beta-testing 7.4 as possible, it
> > > seems only reasonable to devote a fair amount of the front
> > > page to this information.
> > >
> > > -Neil
> > >
> > >
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