I made a few initial edits to the 9.1 press release which can be seen here:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/91releasedraftAs mentioned by Josh, one of my goals is to explain how the features can benefit users so that:
(a) existing users needing and waiting for features will want to upgrade
(b) existing and new users may see new features they want to try out
I agree it would be nice to have a unifying theme as well so there is more to do.
Please review and let me know what you think.
John
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Josh Kupershmidt
<schmiddy@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Josh Berkus <
josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Hmmm, I'd like to keep it down to categories because we don't want to
> list all 9 features in a sentence. I also like the "more new features"
> because I want to hammer it in to people that we're not sitting still
> and letting the NoSQL guys to all the innovation. Let me try ....
>
> "This latest release contains more new features than any prior release
> of PostgreSQL, enhancing scalability and security, as well as adding new
> use cases for the database."
>
> Needs help, but can you see what I'm driving for?
have that introduction neatly tie together all the new features with a
single theme -- something more substantive than "enhancing scalability
and security" -- but given that we're talking about 9 or so basically
unrelated major features, that's kind of hard to do.
Now, maybe the bullet points could do a bit better conveying the
appeal/use-case/awesomeness of the features. I think some of John
Wang's suggested changes downthread are along these lines.
Josh