X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F3FD1D7BE; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:03:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 33497-09; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:02:56 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7A9D1D1D5; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:49:12 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 710E5369F1; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:46:46 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE0F369F0; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:46:46 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:46:46 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: scrappy@ganymede.hub.org To: Neil Conway Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org, PostgreSQL Development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Release cycle length In-Reply-To: <87smkmgyn7.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com> Message-ID: <20031117233828.Y731@ganymede.hub.org> References: <3FB988B8.1050904@zeut.net> <87smkmgyn7.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200311/308 X-Sequence-Number: 2955 On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Neil Conway wrote: > That said, I'm not really sure how we can make better use of the beta > period. One obvious improvement would be making the beta announcements > more visible: the obscurity of the beta process on www.postgresql.org > for 7.4 was pretty ridiculous. Does anyone else have a suggestion on > what we can do to produce a more reliable .0 release in less time? Agreed ... here's a thought ... take the download page and break it into two pages: page 1: broken down into "dev" vs "stable" versions, including the date of release ... page 2: when you click on the version you want to download, it brings you to a subpage that is what the main page currently is (with all the flags and such) but instead of just sending ppl to the ftp site itself, actually have the link go to the directory that contains that version on the mirror site ... that first page of the download could contain descriptoins of the variosu releases, and state of releases?