Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88F16336CA for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:31:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 87591-05 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:31:19 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from vms173001pub.verizon.net (vms173001pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.1]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7596963277D for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:31:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ridley.home ([173.67.16.250]) by vms173001.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KGN002V2Y0ITC00@vms173001.mailsrvcs.net> for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:29:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Treat To: Josh Berkus Subject: Re: Bad news approval Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:29:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org References: <49BD7159.6070709@agliodbs.com> <200903170029.26717.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> <200903170903.31902.josh@agliodbs.com> In-reply-to: <200903170903.31902.josh@agliodbs.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Message-id: <200903171429.04204.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200903/113 X-Sequence-Number: 16767 On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:03:31 Josh Berkus wrote: > Robert, > > > That was my bad. For some reason I thought we had an exception for > > products that are introducing PostgreSQL support into thier products. I > > guess that isn't the case? > > Yeah, but not betas. Look at it this way; if we're only allowing them one > announcement per 6 months, then their final release will get no > announcement. Well, this assumes the final release is within 6 months of the beta announcement, which is probably true, though GMail is still in beta. I guess assuming a priori knowledge of the product release cycle should be done in favor of increasing the beta pool to help ensure solid support upon release. Thanks for the clarification. :-) -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com