From: usleepless@gmail.com
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Release notes introductory text
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:46:28 +0200
Message-ID: <c39ec84c0710111346r5cc5ca1ey42a77c9128247f15@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710112004.l9BK4eq03596@momjian.us>
References: <200710112004.l9BK4eq03596@momjian.us>
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
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