From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200404141803.i3EI3we20370@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: New News Entry
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To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:03:58 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@gunduz.org>,
	PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 13:45, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > 
> > > Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
> > > > News approved. Will appear in next site build.
> > >
> > > Oh, so everytime someone pays someone to develop a PostgreSQL feature,
> > > it's a news item?  I'll have to remember that...
> > 
> > Agree with Peter here ... are we going to see another news item when the
> > feature is actually developed and added to the code?
> > 
> 
> How about we drop it from the main page and instead I'll put a blurb in
> the weekly news with the mention to contact Bruce/Core if your company
> would like to help fund development. Once we get actual patches into CVS
> for these features, we can add news items for them attributing
> sponsorship of the feature to whomever funded it. This will also give us
> some pre-buzz about upcoming features for the next release, but not ones
> that are vaporware. 

I think it is a valid news item because it highlights (well known)
companies funding PostgreSQL development.  Just ditch the feature list.

I agree we can post the feature item once it is in CVS.

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