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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 13 press release draft
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:13:49 +0200
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On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 5:21 PM Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 8/17/20 3:31 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 17:07, Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> * The press kit has been slimmed down. This is due to an overall
> >> decrease in actual traffic to the press release through the years,
> >> though downloads themselves have gone up after the release! This likely
> >> due to fragmentation of how people consume PostgreSQL news, as today the
> >> release serves more as a "hey the new PostgreSQL software is available!"
> >
> > It's also because this information is no longer available after
> > release, we just show them directly to the more detailed release
> > notes.
>
> Well, the numbers are much lower even when it is "news" -- that's the
> period I typically measure.
>
> >
> > That's a shame because there is lots of good work in the release
> announcement.
>
> Before I helped to write these, I used to refer to them a lot to
> actually understand what was in a release :)
>
> To your point, perhaps we can make it a bit more visible / accessible on
> the website. The presskits themselves are a bit buried after the
> release[1] but perhaps we can rearrange some things to make them more
> visible for longer. It still does not resolve the first problem I
> mention (traffic to press release down even as news...though will still
> take the "downloads up" overall problem. So long as we spread awareness!)
>

Maybe we should link them from the documentation pages, the same way we do
with direct links to the release notes?

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