Message-ID: <46BC6D9E.7030505@commandprompt.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:52:30 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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To: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
CC: PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Version differences
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Dave Page wrote:
> There is currently no way for a visitor to the website to what whats
> cool and new in the latest major release. This info is in the main
> announcement panel for a while after we release, but is gone as soon as
> we have a conference or something.
> 
> Any ideas how we can best fix this?

Personally, I believe we should only talk about the "latest" release on
the front page and have "older releases" linked. Secondly we could add a
new features link after latest release that is a page about what is cool
and new (with a link to everything else we have too).

> Related to this, we have links on the front page to the release notes of
> the latest point releases. A suggestion was made to me that these should
> point to lists of all the changes in the given branch. Consider the
> following scenario:
> 
> - Critical security issue is found so we produce a release.
> - Shortly after we find a simple bug in say, plpgsql that warrants
> another release.
> - User visits the site, and only sees the details of the bug which
> doesn't affect him, thus doesn't bother to upgrade.

Right.

> 
> One solution (which could also resolve an issue that I think JD raised
> recently) would be to split the Release Notes appendix in the docs into
> seperate pages for each major release, re-ordered so the next/previous
> links make more sense. On the website we'd then point people at these
> index pages, rather than the specific release.
> 

I like this.

Joshua D. Drake


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