Обсуждение: Release notes introductory text

[ BCC to docs and hackers.  Sorry this seems like the only logical way
to do this.]

I have added the following introductory paragraph to the release notes:

    This release represents a major leap forward by adding significant new
    functionality and performance enhancements to
    <productname>PostgreSQL</>. Many complex ideas that normally take years
    to implement were added rapidly to this release by our development team.
    This release starts <productname>PostgreSQL</> on a trajectory moving
    beyond feature-parity with other database systems to a time when
    <productname>PostgreSQL</> will be a technology leader in the database
    field. Major new capabilities in this release include:

The full release text with my edits to "major" and "migration" sections
is included:

    http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/release-8-3.html

Comments?

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Hi,

On 10/11/07, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> [ BCC to docs and hackers.  Sorry this seems like the only logical way
> to do this.]
>
> I have added the following introductory paragraph to the release notes:
>
>     This release represents a major leap forward by adding significant new
>     functionality and performance enhancements to
>     <productname>PostgreSQL</>. Many complex ideas that normally take years
>     to implement were added rapidly to this release by our development team.

i am not a native speaker, but this sentence doesn't sound too
positive. i might get the impression stuff was "rushed in". it also
sound a little like "bragging"?

try to remove "normally take years" from the sentence. "ideas" is a
little vague as well. are they features? optimizations?

"Many complex features were added to this release by our development team."

regards,

usleep

"Fortunately, most of these enhancements are automatic and require user
changes or tuning:"

ITYM "... do not require ..."

cheers

andrew

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> [ BCC to docs and hackers.  Sorry this seems like the only logical way
> to do this.]
>
> I have added the following introductory paragraph to the release notes:
>
>     This release represents a major leap forward by adding significant new
>     functionality and performance enhancements to
>     <productname>PostgreSQL</>. Many complex ideas that normally take years
>     to implement were added rapidly to this release by our development team.
>     This release starts <productname>PostgreSQL</> on a trajectory moving
>     beyond feature-parity with other database systems to a time when
>     <productname>PostgreSQL</> will be a technology leader in the database
>     field. Major new capabilities in this release include:
>
> The full release text with my edits to "major" and "migration" sections
> is included:
>
>     http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/release-8-3.html
>
> Comments?
>
>

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 16:04 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>     This release represents a major leap forward by adding significant new
>     functionality and performance enhancements to
>     <productname>PostgreSQL</>. Many complex ideas that normally take years
>     to implement were added rapidly to this release by our development team.
>     This release starts <productname>PostgreSQL</> on a trajectory moving
>     beyond feature-parity with other database systems to a time when
>     <productname>PostgreSQL</> will be a technology leader in the database
>     field. Major new capabilities in this release include:

Well said.

PostgreSQL is already well beyond the open source pack and I can point
to many features that exist in commercial databases that have their
origin in our code base. PostgreSQL has long been a focal point for
Computer Science research and we should shout about it.

--
  Simon Riggs
  2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com