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From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Glaesemann <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: On-line docs for PG 8.1 need updating
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:50:42 -0400 (AST)
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Neil Conway wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 11:03 +0900, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>> I agree with your points. One reservation I have is that people might
>> be more likely to run a beta in a production environment. Nowadays it
>> seems increasingly common for projects to release betas for
>> widespread circulation. I don't know if this is something that should
>> be encouraged for PostgreSQL. I'd hate to see people get a bad
>> impression of PostgreSQL because a beta screws up their data.
>
> IMHO it is fairly clearly a good thing to get more publicity for
> Postgres betas. That is the whole point of the beta program in the first
> place: I don't see that putting more beta information on the main
> website is fundamentally different from sending email announcing betas
> to -announce, for example. Provided that the caveats are clear, I think
> there's a lot to be gained by publicizing betas more effectively.

As long as it is appropriate tagged as being beta (and clearly), I tend to 
agree ... the more ppl we can encourage to test/pound a beta, the better 
the end release is ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
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