Re: volunteer to draft next update release

On Oct 19, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Umair Shahid <umair.shahid@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:

> On Oct 18, 2016, at 6:35 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/18/2016 02:50 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> 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.

Per Tom on the -hackers thread, he advised waiting for the release notes.  Heikki identified the two major things.

Would you recommended drafting the notes in the wiki or in the “press” repo or put it in a thread?

FYI, I have added a template named update_201610.md under the /update_releases/current in the press repo.