From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200404141824.i3EIOe824181@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: New News Entry
In-Reply-To: <20040414150628.T69932@ganymede.hub.org>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:24:40 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@gunduz.org>,
	PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Agreed here too ... then it becomes no different then "SRA hires Bruce
> Momjian" ... but, I think those doing the work should be mentioned as
> well, no?

OK, where should we go from here?  Remove the item?  Remove the feature
list?  Add names of folks?

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