On 19 May 2003 at 9:34, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 04:13, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 May 2003 04:53, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > Do we need to do anything for 7.3.3 other than put a news blurb up on the
> > > web sites? Do we want to do a mailing to the OSS-friendly press? Or at
> > > least post a NewsForge?
> >
> > Do we have a documented procedure for making a release? Two at that, one for
> > incremental point release like 7.3.3 and major ones like 7.4
> >
>
> There are a couple of places that the procedure for making a major point
> release are kept, one is in the source, the other is either in one of
> the guides or somewhere behind the advocacy site. If no one else can
> find them I can dig up links when we need them. That said core has never
> felt a need to make widespread public announcements outside of the
> postgresql community for minor point releases, so unless that policy has
> changed I believe the only things that will need to be done are a
> posting to -hackers, -announce, and -general, a posting on www, and a
> mention in the weekly news. Anyone who wishes to translate the posting
> and post to a regional mailing list is free to do so.
I have a question. Why not drum every point release as loud as we can? Does it
hurt anyway?
I mean let's do it..
Bye
Shridhar
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